| Vacation Recap |
| 07.12.05 (1:47 pm) |
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My week in Northern Michigan was very peaceful, quiet, and restful for the most part.
There were 4 of us in the small cabin, “J” and I, my daughter and her friend from middle school. The first couple of days were nice, warm, and sunny. We went swimming and sailing on Crystal lake, which is a really huge, lovely lake near Traverse City on the western shore of Lake Michigan.
On the Fourth of July it rained and thunder stormed in the morning and later it cleared off to a wet but overall nice afternoon. We went to the fireworks in the resort town of Frankfort that evening, they were an hour late and we were almost ready to leave when the fireworks started, so we stayed, and it was a wonderful display. Her daughter came up and stayed with us from Monday through the rest of the week, then her son and his 6 y.o. daughter come to stay with us too, staying at his dad's place on the same lake, but they visited us often. The rest of the week was sunny and we took walks, swam and sunned our selves on the beach, and did some reading. The teen aged girls were somewhat bored, didn't want to swim except for the first day, and had me drive them to Frankfort several times to see if they could find other teens to talk to and "hangout" with. One day I took “J” sailing when the wind was very strong While I’ve sailed for nearly 20 years I’ve sailed mostly alone and am not used to having passengers who do not sail on my boat. She did have a life jacket on and we were close to shore so she just swam/walked in as I sailed the boat to shore. I got in several good bike rides, one excellent training ride for next weeks race, and a nice long (35 mile) ride up the lakeshore. While I took my long bike ride they took canoes down the river for a 2 hours ride out to Lake Michigan. “J” and I went up to a local light house (Point Betsie) at sunset a couple of times to watch the sun go down, and make out on the beach a bit along with many other couples doing the same thing, and a bunch of old folk on their lawn chairs.
Saturday we went to the art and craft fair in Beulah and looked around for several hours, had lunch and then we (my daughter, her friend and I) packed up and left for home about 4 hours away. After several very long stretches of roadwork later our trip stretched into 5 hours and we were glad to be home. My son “B” has done very well all week with his mom, a far cry from months and years past. These new meds are really working for us, Yipeeee! |
posted by: xinnia
post date: 07.12.05 (12:36 pm)
sounds like a great vacation, glad u were able to enjoy it. great pic of sunset!
posted by: SweetDiva
post date: 07.12.05 (12:59 pm)
sounds like you had a good time, great!! nice pics!
posted by: ScubaDiva
post date: 07.12.05 (1:08 pm)
Thanks for inviting me. My bf at 14-15 lived up there. I think he still lives in Crystal Lake... I would love to see what he's up to nowadays. You coulda done some investigating for me.
I'm so glad you had a good time. Too bad you didn't have a larger place or a less-squeaky bed. (ahem)
posted by: ScubaDiva
post date: 07.12.05 (1:08 pm)
We want to see pics of you on vacay though. The scenery is lovely but we want pics of you in your speedo!
posted by: trekguy
post date: 07.12.05 (2:17 pm)
Reply to: ScubaDiva
Ah NO!
posted by: jerneedog
post date: 07.13.05 (4:12 am)
That's awesome man...sounds like a wonderful time. I had a great time on my 2 weeks vacation and I'm saving the rest of my time for a few days here and there and most of it for Christmas time. I usually take a week or two then.
posted by: lindy
post date: 07.13.05 (10:39 am)
I especially love the last picture. It looks like something you'd see in a magazine. It's really quite lovely. I'm glad you had fun.
posted by: chicalookate
post date: 07.14.05 (5:15 am)
I love those doo nothing sort of vacations... The pics are lovely.
