What a busy couple of days! We went out to the County Park yesterday to celebrate the 4th of July with Mom, Mike, Kevin, Kenny, Sandy, Dennis, and Jeff. Mom rented one of the little cabins they have there and let me tell you, that’s the way to do it (especially with the little one). I can’t imagine what a hassle things would have been if we didn’t have that inside place to set up her and her myriad of belongings. Fabulous time! We were able to stop by Ingrid and Paul’s for a quick bite at their BBQ celebrating Nicole’s graduation (congrats!) before we had to head back. It may be summer cookout season but there was mac and cheese so I was a happy camper!
How did Sophie celebrate the holiday? By cutting a tooth!!! Yep, as of today, it’s a sharp little bugger sticking through (her bottom left, but I don’t think that the right is too far behind). We tried to head down to Shmina’s yesterday but she was too uncomfortable so we walked back to the park pretty quickly to get her some Orajel and lay her down.
We started our U.P. vacation today (bright and early). We left around 4:30 and the timing worked out pretty well all day. She mostly slept until the bridge and then we fed her and let her play and hang out for an hour or so and then she napped to Tahquamenon Falls. The Falls were really neat to see, even more impressive than some of the ones we saw on our Road Trip a couple of years ago. The water is colored an orangish color but it’s not rust, it’s tannic acid leaching from the cedars and other plants. The Lower Falls are actually a series of 5 different falls which is cool because you can stop at a lot of different places and catch a lot of different views. The one deck had a nice spray coming off of it. Why was the spray so nice? Because it kept the blood-sucking mosquitoes off of us!!! Man, those things were thick! We then went up to the Upper Falls (had lunch at the brewery, I hadn’t realized just how big the wolves were until I’ve seen all the stuffed ones around) and walked out there. These ones were pretty massive (50’ drop, 200’ across). The roar is pretty awesome when you’re standing by them. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to spend much time at the falls because our little teether was a bit cranky out there. She was pretty good most of the day so we won’t hold it against her :-)
After Tahquamenon, we headed out to Munising and that’s where we’re at now. We landed at the Holiday Inn, it was a bit more, but it has a balcony overlooking the lake and we’re on the 3rd floor so I think it’s worth it (especially since we’re staying here since Sophie’s had such a busy day). She’s been good here, playing with her toys, working on scooching forward, and we went swimming down in the pool. It was pretty fun for her at the beginning and I took her duck for her to chase, which she did. But it got cold in the water and she got hungry so we headed back up to the room, ordered a pizza, fed her and now she’s sleeping (a bit early, but I think we’ll be OK).
So that’s been our day! I think I’m going to head back down to the hot tub for a bit and then try to stay awake until night to see the stars. Tomorrow we’re heading out on a boat tour of Pictured Rocks so hopefully Sophie’s up for that. I’d also like to see some of waterfalls in the area (there’s a bunch). After all of that, we’re heading to Escanaba to stay with Grant and Bobbie for a couple of days. Stay tuned!
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