Exploring a new area!

Since Steve and I had the day off on Tuesday, we had lunch by the river in Hastings. We took our little gas BBQ grill and had some hotdogs, chips and beer next to the Mississippi River. It was a little windy and when the sun went behind the clouds it was chilly. We ate and left there quickly. It was still nice to have a picnic lunch! 

 Our lunch views..

 After lunch we decided to drive across the bridge to check out Gray Cloud Island on the other side of the Mississippi River. We had never been over there before and found the Gray Cloud Dunes park to hike to the river on the other side. I figured from the map, it was about a mile hike to the river. 

 It was a pretty and quite walk to the river and we were the only ones there!

 The train went under rail road tracks and there was a lot of cool looking graffiti all over the tunnel walls.

We ended up hiking 3.5 miles, a lot longer than we were planning. I wanted to see where the end of the trail was at. We just kept following the rivers edge. I should have worn better shoes and not the thin sandals. My feet were sore after all that walking in bad shoes! 

Dinner last night was grass fed beef cheese burgers on the grill. I topped mine with a home made beer batter onion ring. 

They turned out nice and crispy! 

I have a quick job today and then Steve and I both are off today. We are going to start working on the deck, prepping it to paint.