Friday, September 25, 2015 - Exploring Amana Colonies (Amana Colonies, Iowa)

We were no hurry to get up and go out this morning. 

I changed the bed linens and did 2 loads of laundry. 

Made breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast.

Then around noon we went out to explore the different colonies.

We started by going to the Creamery Theater to get tickets for the show on Saturday night.

We went to several of the General Stores and browsed. 

At the wood shop we found this:

We walked around the town and visited the cheese, wine, meat, broom & basket, Christmas, tea & coffee and leather shops.

After that we went back to camp to spend some time with Bella. 

This park is actually in a corn field and is very large. You can see the field behind us.

We decided to try Phat Daddy's Pizza for dinner.

It's very thin crust and baked in a wood fired oven. 

12" is the only size they have, but it was plenty for us. 

They cut it into squares so you get pieces without end crust which seems strange, but very tasty.

We went back home to Bella and took her to the field behind us and let her go. She ran around and had a fun time chasing her ball. She was ready for relaxing for sure just as we were. 

Thursday, September 24, 2015 - Iowa another new state (Amana Colonies, Iowa)

We left camp at 9:10am this morning. (Another new state for us).

  On the way we stopped at Hardee's for breakfast. 

We saw lots of corn fields on our way.

Had the company of a beautiful 4 legged baby.

We arrived at Amana Colonies RV Park at 1:10pm in Iowa.

We will be here for 3 nights, paid 2 nights at Passport America rate at $17.50 each and one night at $35.00 for a total of $74.90 with taxes for a FHU 30 amp.

We got set up and relaxed with a beverage then decided to explore the area and get some dinner.

We stopped at the visitors center and found that most of the shops close at 5:00pm and it was 4:45pm.

I took some picture of the displays at some of the shops

We had dinner at Ox Yoke Restaurant. We ate family style. They gave us salad of cold slaw and cottage cheese. Then I had grill pork loin and Jesse had breaded chicken. We were also served sauerkraut, corn, green beans, mashed potatoes, gravy, bread and strawberry jam. It was all tasty. For dessert we shared a delicious chocolate silk pie.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 - I new state for us (Hayward, Minnesota)

We left this morning at 9:30am and traveled 4 1/2 hours to the KOA in Hayward, Minnesota. We have a FHU site at the rate of $32.70.

We stopped one time just after we entered Minnesota for a potty break.

Soon after our stop it started to rain and was still raining when we got set-up.

Minnesota is a new state for us so I have added it to our US map.

Today is our 36th wedding anniversary, but we have decided to stay home and not go out. 

I heated leftovers from the past two days and we watched the premier of Survivor and the finale of Big Brother.