[mofromcheboygankalamazoo]

thank you coastiemom and suz!!! I know i'll have an awesome time and i'll definitely be coming back with lots of stories and photos!
cardwellave-maybe i'll run into you

again, please all have a great fourth!

[AngelfaceAZ]

Don't forget to take him Petoskey stone hunting

You are all making me homesick by the way. I was planning a trip back this summer with my daughter until I blew out my knee, now I need all my vacation time for recovery time after surgery

Oh and NO ONE celebrates Hockey like Michigan does..except for maybe Canada. Being in Arizona during the Stanley Cup is SO irritating!!!! People are like Stanley what? I swear the only one who gets it is Wayne Gretskey and if you want to see how the mighty have fallen check out his record with the "yotes"...ok, I'm done

[mofromcheboygankalamazoo]

HEY EVERYBODY!!! I hope everyone's fourth was fantastic! WE had a WONDERFUL trip/vacation in Northern Michigan-we got in after 1am last night so i will probably take a few days to get my thoughts down and share with you photos and things we did! we didn't get to everything i wanted to, but our days were full and we LOVED every second of it!!!!

everything will follow in the next few days

[mofromcheboygankalamazoo]

Ok, i'll begin my trip stories and photos....sorry if you are not interested, but I had a WONDERFUL time sharing Northern Michigan with my big city east coast boyfriend!
When we arrived late on Wed. my mom had a rhubarb pie and oberon waiting for us-it was great!
thurs and fri were spent on wedding stuff-my friend's weddingwas fantastic and fun...

We woke up on saturday and went to the docks at big boy to watch the wanigan race-a wanigan is a raft that must be built then also be able to cook a pot of chili while the team members row to the finish line-all in homage to the logging days

here are some photos from the wanigan races









first, second and third places

I thought it was awesome that an all female team was second place!

also during the wanigan races was a group of ojibwa indians that were in the middle of a trip up the entire inland waterway-mostly youth who were on a journey learning more about their traditions:

[mofromcheboygankalamazoo]

later on saturday we were lucky enough that my parents boat was ready to be brought up the river....it was were it gets "de-winterized" and we took it up the river to where we dock it for the summer near mullett lake....here are some photos along the cheboygan river!










later on in the evening my boyfriend even really liked the sunset from my parents backyard!



we finished off the night by going down to Mulligan's in Cheboygan then up to the Dixie in Mackinaw

more to come

[mofromcheboygankalamazoo]

Soooo onto sunday after spending the morning with my mom (good breakfast and church)....we went up to mackinaw for the craft show where i was able to buy a nice gift for a friend then we had YUMMY smoked whitefish from Bell's fishery!!! soooo good....

That night my boyfriend and i and the newlyweds decided we would drive over to Cross Village. It had rained most of the day, but we wanted to go to Legs Inn and see the Jelly Rolls Blues Band and hopefully catch a sunset...wow, we were soooo lucky!! we went down to the beach (lake michigan) first then up to legs inn for the view and dancing!
here are only a few of my million pictures from that little trip!





and yes there were two surfers there!!!



sunset from the yard of Legs Inn





then here is my favorite one!!!!



so yeah i recommend a sunset at cross village and of course visiting the dunes and legs inn (we did the dunes there last summer)

enjoy...more to come

[suz7731]

i can't see the pics at work... they are blocked, but i will definitely check them out this evening!!

i'm so glad you had a nice vacation!! did you get the chance to go to the UP?

[AngelfaceAZ]

Ok, pictures of Lake Michigan at Sunset...I'm officially homesick!!! I was planning on making it back this summer but instead I have to use my vacation time for Knee surgery thank you for sharing such beautiful pictures!

[magellan]

Originally Posted by mofromcheboygankalamazoo

so yeah i recommend a sunset at cross village and of course visiting the dunes and legs inn (we did the dunes there last summer)

enjoy...more to come

Great pics! I love Legs Inn!

[MICoastieMom]

Sounds like you had a splendid time! I am so happy the weather cooperated and all. Now that you have him hooked, be sure to hurry back soon. You know what they say about striking while the iron is hot! LOL