
It was an absolutely perfect day for it. Beautiful, fall weather. I know people think of the islands and that whole Sandusky area of Lake Erie as a summer gig but it's beautiful in the fall:
Put-in-Bay is the town on South Bass Island on the western end of Lake Erie. So to get there you need to take a ferry. We used the Miller Boat Line and they were great. They run daily out of Port Clinton - about an hour from our house in Cleveland.
The biggest thrill ever for a 2 year old obsessed with cars and trucks and things that go? Taking our car on a boat:

Seriously it blew his little mind. CAR ON BOAT! CAR BOAT! BOAT!!!! Pretty awesome. The ride over is about 20 min so we didn't stay in our car the whole time:
Although I did use the downtime to nurse the baby. In a car. On a boat.
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I have officially nursed this kid everywhere. |
Once were were back on land we buckled the kids in and headed straight to the Perry's Cave Family Fun Center.
First on our list was the Butterfly House.
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Or BOO-FLY house if you're talking to the 2 year old. BOO FLY DON'T BOTHER ME! His fav song. |
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Guess which one. |
Tons of BOOFLIES:
And we even go to see to see the cocoons which was a big thrill:
From there it was on to Perry's Cave:

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A very important body of water. |
Kindof like how the southwest looks at our great lakes.... Wait.
Anyways! After the tour the kids needed to run around for a bit. So we headed to the Fort A-maze-ing.
Which is basically just a huge maze. The kids loved it.
I got several turns in and had a crying baby in my hands that needed to eat RIGHT NOW OMG. I... couldn't find the way out.
But with not to much trouble (and alot of mocking) Matt was able to navigate me back to the entrance.
From there we left the Family Fun Center and headed across the street to Crystal Cave. Which is the world's largest geode. My kids LOVE geodes - my mom collects them kindof so they've seen a few in their lives. Once they understood what they were seeing it blew their minds.
We skipped the winery portion of the Crystal Cave tour, sadly b/c the kids were in dire need of some downtime (read: AWFUL). So we took a driving tour of the island:

When everyone seemed back to rights again we had a bit more time to kill before the ferry home but not enough for another attraction. So we went to the park:
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Always a strong play. |
And got ice cream:
Perfect end to a lovely day.
The ferry home was pretty fun, too!
We had a great time in Put-in-Bay. Which you can probably tell just by the fact that this turned into about the longest post ever. And we still didn't see all of the things we wanted to see! Matt's super bummed about missing the Longest Bar in the World (yes. that's a thing), and I want to go to the top of Perry's Victory. So we will be returning to the island again soon.

Disclosure: Miller Boat Line provided me with tickets to the island and the Perry's Cave Family Fun Center attractions. All opinions are my own.