Decorah, Iowa

We headed south into Iowa for our little adventure today; Noelle, Sierra, Mom and I. Our first stop, when we had reached the quaint town of Decorah, was for lunch at a barbecue place. Then we set off to find the famous Decorah Ice Cave on Ice Cave Road. We parked the car in a small gravel lot

and then headed up a flight of stone stairs to the ice cave.

I was the only one who went very far inside. I used the flashlight on my cell phone to see inside, but there was no ice to be seen. I quickly made my way back out to a waiting Noelle and Sierra

and we headed back down the stairs

and moved on to our next destination: Dunning's Springs.

We parked the car along a creek,

crossed the road near an old root cellar

and walked a closed road to the cascading waterfall at Dunning's Springs.

A metal plaque on a rock told a little bit about the history of the place.

Wanting to see a little bit more, Noelle, Sierra an I walked past some gentlemen working on a neat looking stone bridge

and headed up some stairs

to get a different view of the cascade.

At the top of the stairs the water emerges from a crack in the rock. We admired the view and then headed back down to Grandma and the last stop of our trip: the Toppling Goliath Brewery.