Best sunset in Madison!

Winter has never been my favorite season at all, living in Wisconsin has never been on my plan. thanks to my cheesehead husband and my adventure baby who enjoys the cold temps. They push me out of the house even if I try to come up with all sorts of great indoor activities.

I usually plan my week depending on the weather, I don’t ever do last-minute things, because I’m a mom of a toddler, but sunset last minute hike give me a call I will be there before you know it. I’m from South Africa I love the sunset we have the most beautiful sunset in Africa, so I wouldn’t miss a sunset hike in my life especially 38 degrees in the middle of winter in Wisconsin. But I have to say not every day I’m up for an afternoon hike, sometimes Armani naps for 3 hours so when she wakes up it’s already dark and I’m ready for bed ugh… Mom life.

There is just something I adore about my daughter she is a nature freak, she looks out the window and says let’s go for a hike, she has been saying this as long as she has started talking, she keeps me going, she keeps me on my toes, she is my greatest motivation. she reminds me every day of the most important things like hiking, gym, etc…. I’m such a lucky mom, thank god I’m also an adventure mom, not a stay-at-home mom, I listen to her and always try to have fun with her, she is my everything.

Today was such a busy day and we couldn’t wait to get out of the house and go hiking, we packed the car at 1 pm we were always on time and we were very organized.so I wasn’t going to let anything stop us from going on a sunset hike. We left on time and when we got there it was peaceful and beautiful like we expected, I had two questions for her, do you want me to carry you or you wanna hike? She said please carry me, I was super stoked because that meant I got to do what I wanted enjoy a nature walk and take great pictures.

But it didn’t last long she wanted to hike I was happy to let her run along the slippery trail packed with snow, I didn’t wear my yaktrax because people had already been on this trail, so it was safe for me to hike without them.

At this point we are chasing each other on the trail and giggling and just having fun enjoying nature play, I know it sounds weird, but they play in the woods huh… We got really warm and the temps were slowly dropping.

Looks like we were 10 minutes early so we hiked to the overlook and decided to hike back and try to catch the sunset from a different direction, I carried her again on my back so that we could keep up, she never complained at all she was curious about the gunshots she kept hearing and she asked if they are shooting a deer like her daddy, I said maybe. at this point, I wish I could have come early enough to add more miles because we are circling now, so the plan was to keep moving so that we stay warm and that worked.

We finally made it to the overlook and she said, put me down.

So every time I take a picture she will say take a picture and send it to daddy.

Here we are just feeling like we are the luckiest girls alive in the wild culture not everyone gets an opportunity to see this beautiful life outside of the house.

We have learned to bring a tripod on solo hikes because we don’t wanna miss out on these precious moments, so we keep these memories as photographs.

Cherokee Marsh Unit never disappoints, summer, spring, fall, and winter we are here honey! The location is also convenient for my family only 20 min drive to the park from my house. So we spent 45 min outside and felt good.

We are so grateful for the warm winters, I highly recommend it. Cherokee Marsh is family-friendly and dog-friendly, it’s never busy. great for bird watching in the summer.it’s a great hidden gem for Madison.