92 County Tour: Allen County

We decided to merge our anniversary getaway trip with our 92 county tour and knock out Allen County while we were at it! It was challenging, actually, for two reasons. First {and foremost}, Allen County is the biggest county in the state, and it's no joke - 660 square miles! That's a lot of ground to cover! Secondly, Allen County is where I worked for four years, so Ryan and I have already traveled over a lot of it already, and I wanted to find things that were new and different to try for our trip!

Your history lesson for the day is that Allen County is named after Colonel John Allen, who was killed in the War of 1812. {Before our time.}

There is SO MUCH to do in this county, so please know this is certainly not an exhaustive list of options.

It's kind of hard to see, but my chalkboard really says Allen. :)

I told you about it already here, but we did a lot of shopping! Fort Wayne has a great mall {at least it's great in the eyes of this Grant County girl}. Actually it has two great malls. The indoor, traditional kind of mall and an outdoor shopping center. We went to both!

And of course, you can't go to Allen County without stopping at DeBrand for some chocolates. Oh my goodness. So good. DeBrand has been around since 1987 and has established quite a reputation of delicious chocolates and desserts. They have multiple locations in Fort Wayne, and at one, you can take a tour of the place, but we visited a different one, so we didn't take a tour. We did, however, eat up, and it was completely delicious!

And as you also already read, we took a trip through the Fantasy of Lights, which was delightful as well! We have a similar light display here in Marion, but it's always fun to see what other places have to offer.

The last day of our weekend in Allen County, we visited a coffee shop, just like we always do in every county! I wanted to find a shop I'd not been to before, and this was the winner: Mocha Lounge!

It was a coffee shop in a strip mall - but you guys, look what it has???

A food truck!! {Smitten.}

The inside was adorable - and much bigger than we envisioned. Our drinks came in enormous mugs that are pretty much the size mugs should be.

Delicious!! And my favorite thing was that they had a TRUCK!!!!

Once we were sufficiently caffeinated, we headed to the  St. Joe Christmas tree farm I told you about:

We didn't cover all 600 some square miles of the county with this tour, but we sure did have a blast seeing some new pieces of the land that we'd not seen before. Thanks, Allen County, for being great hosts!!