Lake Pepin

After reading a recent Star Tribune article raving about all the diet-busting bakeries and restaurants along Lake Pepin, we decide to take an impromptu daytrip there today.

Lake Pepin is about 90 minutes South of St. Paul, if you know where you’re going, which I did not, so it took closer to 2 hours. We were good and hungry by the time we got to our first destination. We followed the article’s advice and started out the day at Rabbit Bakery in Lake City. Millie got her very own little mini-cupcake, which she loved.

After a stop at the local playground- it has amazing marina views for the kiddies to enjoy while burning their booties on the scalding plastic slides- we crossed the river at Wabasha and headed to Stockholm.

It happened to be the 31st Annual Art Fair at Stockholm today. But the crowds were actually kind of fun. Millie was a huge hit at Bogus Creek Café, where she entertained everyone by showing them she is One (she holds one finger up, for any of you who have not seen her do her trick) and flashing her best “who me? I’m never fussy! My mom’s a liar” smile. She was wearing only her shorts, and with her newly butchered bangs courtesy of yours truly, she looked hilarious even without her antics.

Here she is enjoying her morsel of processed sugar and lard. Num num!

Ok, she thought the raspberry was a little tart. It ended up in her shirt anyway. Outfit #1 down, three to go.