Alma Center, Wisconsin

When we woke up in Alma Center, Wisconsin, I was lobbying hard to cut bait and start toward Illinois and one day closer to home. Luckily, Tom said he would like to take a day's break from driving and talked me into just hanging out.

We're out in the middle of nowhere so we looked on the Roadside America website to see if there were any "uniquely odd" tourist attractions to check out while we were in the area. Sure enough, there was something just a few miles away in Black River Falls.

Introducing the Orange Moose.

Black River Falls and their famous Orange Moose.

Of course, we had to have lunch at the Orange Moose Bar and Grill. I asked the waitress what was up with the giant orange moose and she was really vague about it. "Just some old legend about an orange moose." She was so sketchy on the details that it almost made me think there was more to the story.

Heck, since this is the first moose I have seen on this trip. For all I know, all moose are orange!

Anyway, we also found out from our campground newsletter that the orchard up the road was open for pick-your-own blueberries today. The kids have never done anything like that and Andrew loves blueberries so we thought we would check it out.

We grabbed a few containers and headed over to the orchard. We all had a blast and Andrew was especially happy when the guy told us to eat and taste test as much as we wanted while we picked. Tom was happy when he heard the blueberries were only $1.50 per pound. It was probably the cheapest activity (and the healthiest come to think of it) we've done on this whole trip.

Part of the blueberry orchard.

Kaitlyn picking Wisconsin blueberries.

Andrew was more interested in eating than picking.

Kelly's caught eating on the job.

Almost 2 pounds of fresh blueberries for less than $3.00.