the first two days: northern indiana

Yesterday we left Terre Haute, but not Indiana, not yet. We are visiting our good friend Cassie and her adorable little son Leo in Chesterton, Indiana until tomorrow morning. The trip up was only about three and a half hours and went pretty smoothly. We stopped a couple of times to do some filming but other than that we just drove right through. We also discovered that our giant van really isn't THAT bad on gas, so we may be able to get out to Yellowstone afterall ;)

We got to Chesterton around six last night and were greeted by a very happy Cassie and quite puzzled toddler (don't worry, we grew on him) and had delicious veggie lasagna. Leo taught us that a cow says "mooooo" and happy (the dog) says "ruff ruff!", tickled, giggled and then went to bed. Cassie and I stayed up almost all night talking while poor Sean slept downstairs on the couch.

This morning we woke up early to take advantage of everything we could in town. We went to Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and bummed around the beach.  While we were there we climbed The Devil's Slide, which is basically a steep incline walking on loose sand, that was a little tough, but worth it for the view and the rapid trip back down =)

After the Dunes we went for a bike ride around town and stopped for lunch at a local place called The Red Cup, the food was good, but the people must have been having a bad day. After lunch we took a short nap in the van until Cassie and Leo came home from school/daycare. When they got home we went out to Michigan City to play on the beach again and follow Leo around like paparazzi taking pictures. We had chinese for dinner and ended the day sunburnt and satisfied.

Lake Michigan is so beautiful. Tomorrow we are headed for Chicago.

Hope all was well in your world today =)
Peace and Love.