A week away

The Kane County Forest Preserve parks (Big Rock and Paul Wolff) are first-come, first-served campgrounds, that have a 14 day stay limit, after which you need to leave for at least 7 days before returning for another (up to 14-day) stay. By Tuesday, we had stayed at Paul Wolff for 2 weeks, and had planned to move Gracie to Big Rock for the week out (the rules allow us to go from one to the other), but we had a bike trip planned in Wisconsin for the weekend of 8/27-29 -- and as plans for that trip were getting more solid, we decided to do our "week out" near Madison, Wisconsin instead. So, we're back at William G Lunney Lake Farm County Park Campground for a few nights!

On Monday night, we met friends Jim and Melanie at Culver's in South Elgin for a last visit before we were heading out.

On our way up to Madison on Tuesday, we decided to stop at another Culver's...

This one is in Edgerton, Wisconsin, and is the "world's largest Culver's".

Heading in to the Culver's...

... inside the restaurant...

The "flavor of the day" was "Turtle". There is a different flavor of the day each day at each Culver's -- they have vanilla and chocolate custard all the time, and then a unique freshly-mixed flavor of the day. I enjoy their "Turtle Sundae" which is has hot fudge, hot caramel and pecans. When the flavor of the day is Turtle, they essentially make a Turtle Sundae for the ice cream serving. YUM!

Side note: visits to Culver's may be impacting our lack of success in weight loss... may be!

One of the nice things about this particular Culver's is that they have a very large parking lot with large spaces that big rigs (like Gracie) can park in.

Gracie at the Culver's in Edgerton.

You may be able to see that the skies were a little threatening, which was one of the reasons we decided to stop. We talked with some other folks at the campground who had arrived about an hour earlier than we did and they said it was really pouring when they arrived... so... our stop enabled us to miss most of the rain and have an easier drive and campground setup!