North Country 2011--Day 12

A move down the road and a visit to a famous place.

Now that the rally has ended we have moved on. Got up this morning to see about half of the coaches had moved out. Most of these were lining up in a big parking lot to caravan to Madison for the big Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA) rally. They pulled out about 7:30. The folks that were not going to Madison were asked to stay in place until the caravan was on the road. At about 7:50 the power went off. The folks holding the rally had arranged for huge generators to provide us electric power for the length of the rally. The rental company was to turn them off by 8:00 AM and start removing all the cables. We got around about 9:00 and headed northwest toward Green Bay, which was only 51 miles away. We are now in the Apple Creek Campground in De Pere, Wisconsin. This is actually just on the south side of Green Bay. Coming in we missed our turn into the park and had to go up the road to find a place to turn around. Wound up in a housing addition that did not have a place to turn. (There is no backing up when you have a car hooked on the back of the coach.) Decided to unhook the car so I could turn around in a driveway. As Joanne got out of the coach to come back to drive the car little Bridgit escaped. As I've said in previous blog entries she is a runner. She took off and the chase was on. She covered close to a quarter mile, with Jo and I in hot pursuit. Finally, when she got to where she could not see us any more she turned around and came back. Needless to say, we were all three out of breath.

After getting set up in the park we decided to head into Green Bay itself to see what there is to see. Being a Sunday we figured it would be easier to cruise as tourist, with less traffic, than it will be tomorrow when everyone goes back to work. First stop had to be Lambeau Field, the home of the Green Bay Packers. In the winter this field is referred to as "The Frozen Tundra". With training camp starting late this year, due to the NFL lockout, there was a lot of activity going on at the stadium. We did not go in for the stadium tour since I figured I was the only one in the car that would enjoy that. After driving around the stadium we headed to downtown Green Bay. It is very interesting with all the really old churches, buildings and houses. We stopped at Erbert & Gerbert's Subs and Clubs for lunch. This was supposedly started by Erbert & Gerbert Herbert and are only located in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and Colorado. Regardless, their sandwiches are very good. From there we returned to the coach to plan out tomorrow's activities since that is the only full day we will be in this area.