Adventure! Playa Mujeres, Mexico

This past month has been a crazy amazing month full of adventure, family, and celebrations! Now that life is settling back into business as usual, the temps are frigid and the snow flakes are flying, it's the perfect time to share a few of my favorite photos from our trip to Mexico!

We stayed at the Excellence Playa Mujeres, a beautiful resort just north of Cancun. We had the time of our lives enjoying every minute of our stay. We took a catamaran to Isla Mujeres and checked out the island by golf cart. We enjoyed the most incredible food and drink everyday and relaxed our butts off.  But our favorite part has to be our swim out room right on the lazy river. That's right - a lazy river!! This trip couldn't have been more perfect.

Adventure! Madeline Island

We visited the Apostle Islands last year and loved it so much we just had to go back. For our adventure this year, we decided to stay on Madeline Island and I'm so happy we did. We had a blast! It was the perfect combination of relaxation + exploring. We brought our boat and were lucky enough to take it out on Lake Superior twice! Plus we rented mopeds again this year because we loved it so much last year. The weather was incredible (70's and sunny the whole weekend) so we were able to set our lawn chairs on the shore and enjoy a few beers. This was one of the best weekend getaways ever.

Adventure! Itasca State Park

I've lived in Minnesota my whole life and I'm ashamed to say that I have never been to Itasca State Park. I know, I know... I'm a bad Minnesotan. We made it a priority to get my butt up there this summer and let me tell you...I'm so glad we did. It is so beautiful. I did the whole walk across the Mississippi River thing, but the best part was Lake Itasca. Everywhere I looked I was stunned by how incredible it was. And the loons?! Oh my gosh...so many loons! It was really awesome to hear their calls and see them with their babies.

Adventure! North Shore

We spent Memorial Weekend on the North Shore and let me just say...I'm in LOVE!  I think the Gunflint Trail is my new favorite place in Minnesota. The weather wasn't in our favor, but we made the best of it. We checked out the adorable little town of Grand Marais, drove to Canada to hit up a Tim Hortons and drove the entire Gunflint Trail. It's been a dream of mine to see a real, live moose in the wild...and we saw one standing right in the middle of the Gunflint Trail! Ah! So amazing.