Sunday, September 12th

Over the next few days, I would like to share with you some highlights from my recent weekend trip to door county. It was the first time I had been there in many years.  I also have never spent that much time there.

So Friday, we left Madison about noon and headed north.  After getting gas and making pretty good time, we arrived in Sturgeon Bay about 4 pm.  Not wanting to waste any precious time, we immediately started going to places I had read about in the many guidebooks I was provided with to prepare for this trip.  One of the places I wanted to check out was a Lang Store.  Unfamiliar with the surroundings, ( I was the rider) we moved into the left lane to turn.  All I could see was a Target sign and with much delight I exclaimed, " Are we going to Target?"  After some laughter, the Lang store was pointed out to me.  We went through the Lang store, enjoyed the public restroom and moved on to the next stop, the door county candle company.  Now, I think it's important that you know at this point, I'm on day 2.5 of a cold and had spent most of the ride up blowing my nose.  So we walk into this candle store and this guy keeps telling us about the candles, but there is no way I can smell them.  The longer I am in there the more my nose runs and it gets to the point where my eyes are watering and I just need to get out.  Smelling coffee beans at this point to cleanse the smells were not going to help me differentiate between the scents. Luckily my friend was able to smell the things I wanted to buy and verify their scents weren't horrible.


The friend I went to Door County with, has been there many times before and knows it like the back of her hand.  One of her favorite things to do there is to stop at farmer's markets and enjoy the samples.  So on the way to her house, we stopped at a farm market to check things out and maybe score some ice cream.  We ended up with some pizza for dinner.  There was a neat little area outside where there were some small animals for the city folks to look at and feed, so we wandered over to check them out.  The first corral held some pigs and I think they may have been pot belly pigs and were pretty
cute.

  So next to the pigs, was a cow ( there is no picture because the cow couldn't be bothered to turn it's head) , some more pigs (no picture- a pig is a pig) and then we got to the goats.  There was one that was pretty friendly ( the brown one) and even tried to get into Karlene's purse.  Luckily, it didn't get anything important.  So we walk around the corner because one of the goats appears to be laying down on the ground.  All of a sudden, we both realized that maybe the goat was sick.  Upon closer inspection, we realized that the goat wasn't breathing.  So we were the only people in the area.  The guy who owned the farm was off by one of the other buildings working on something.  We couldn't let other people see this goat, so Karlene starts yelling "you who", trying to get his attention.  When that didn't work, she started waving her arms and yelling excuse me.  Finally, the guy rides his golf cart over wearing a look of "what the hell do these damn tourists want?"  He gets there and we go, "Um, your goat doesn't look so good"  and he looks at it and agrees with us and then starts stammering about what may have brought about his demise all while not seeming so surprised about the goat.  He calls over his helper and they get about the business of removing the goat.  So when you look at the goat, it had obviously not been "well" for a couple hours.  I just wonder how many people looked at it before we flagged the people down and thought that it was maybe a fainting goat.  I mean seriously, who would ever imagine they would see a dead goat? Followed by the "you who"-ing and arm waving, it was a pretty memorable way to start a weekend.....