Lindsborg for an afternoon

When my in-laws were here last month, we went to the Salt Mines. We also took a day trip to Lindsborg. They're famous for the Dala horses. They're everywhere in that town.


Even outside of the senior center.


This horse makes me giggle, with its hearing aide + Ben-Gay.

#81 — Go to the Salt Mines in Hutch.

Erik's parents were in town for a few days this week, and we decided we'd take a trip to the Salt Mines in Hutchinson. It just so happens that it's an item on my bucket list. :)




We were given hardhats and little breathing things to wear/carry with us. Of course, Erik sports it with pride!


This made me giggle. How many times are we at a place where it's all "DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!!!!"


And of course my husband decided he wanted to touch it with his tongue. :(


Lots of info to read (snore).


Lots of stuff to see (yay!).


Hey Baby Paul, I didn't get a good pic, but they have vehicles down there that were electric and run on alternative fuels. You'd enjoy it.


There was a train ride, which was pretty great. It's only been running for a few months. Since I've been wanting to go to this for a LONG time, I'm actually glad we waited and had the opportunity to go a bit more into the mine.


This was pretty sweet.


There are some very recognizable movie props down there. :) Plus some of the canisters.




There was another little tram tour called the "dark tour" (I think) .... it was pretty cool, too.


All dark + shadowy.


They let us grab some salt from a rock pile. Can't eat this stuff; it's mostly used for ice melt and the like. I plan to put mine on the ice the next time I make ice cream. :)


There's an awesome wall with lots of quotes about salt. I am a salt kinda girl. I don't much cook with pepper, but gimme salt all day, every day! Of course, I don't often salt when cooking, because not everyone has my tolerance for salt. Plus, growing up, the fellas would dump salt onto everything, even if you'd already salted it. So it seemed a waste to salt things in preparation.


OH. This is awful. My big goofy smile. Just because I'm a dork. It was VERY bright when we exited the tour .... and with a big expanse of concrete to reflect the sun .... I could barely keep my eyes open. :(


I insisted on getting a little rock candy in the gift store. I know there's no salt in the candy or anything, but c'mon. Don't you remember those from being a little kid? (neither does Erik .... he has yet to eat his; if he doesn't hurry up, I might have to help him out!).

On the road — Manhattan

A few weeks ago, I woke up and suggested to Erik that we go play some disc golf in Manhattan. We'd been wanting to go to Tuttle Creek ... but it just hadn't happened yet.

But Erik was a bit skeptical ... it looked like rain. I checked the weather channel's Web site .... and it wasn't supposed to rain until 4 p.m. We were GOLDEN. Or so we thought.

We were approaching Manhattan when it started raining. OOPS. I lost "wife points" there. So we went to Target, then kicked around the mall ... THEN ate at Coco Bolos. By the time we'd wasted about 2.5 hours, it FINALLY stopped raining.

Yay! Disc golf time. :)

We arrived and this was what we saw:


I lost even MORE "wife points" after we saw it was a marshy mess!!!!!!

I've been known to lose a disc in the water, but fortunately for me, I avoided it .... Erik, on the other hand ... well ....











But we got into a groove:


Well, mostly .... ;)


The biggest change on the course was that they no longer have their red flags, which was too bad. They were SO much easier to spot than the white and purple flags. I know it's Manhattan and all, but .... yeah.

At long last! My trip to the corn maze!!!!!

A few years ago, I attempted to go to a corn maze in Manhattan, but it was all short and stubly. NOT a great place to be.

SO a few weeks ago, Erik and I went to The Bison Farm Maze!!!!!!


Check out the design from a birds eye view.



Check out how *fun* these signs are!


I LOVE the entrance of the maze!


Erik being a goober.


Erik stumbled across this can in the maze, despite the "no alcohol" sign. UGH. Erik is a beer snob and doesn't much care for these light beers.


Check out ALL of this corn!


Erik leading the way.


Erik RUNNING away (groan).


These handy numbers had questions to direct us which way to go. Erik got the easy questions (i.e. what noise does a pig make) while I had the not so easy Girl Scout questions.


Us chillin'


Erik being a goober.


There were also fun things to do ... such as something resembling a potato canon, but it used corn on the cob ...


And a pumpkin launcher? Are you KIDDING???? How fun! We need to take my dad on our field trip!


I'm ending on my FAVORITE photo of the day!!!!!!! Aren't all of these differently colored mini pumpkins and gourds awesome?!?!!!!??!!??


Now I'm *dying* to take a couple to a corn maze/pumpkin patch for an engagement session! How FUN!!!!!!!!