They both really missed each other.
Category Archives: Travel
If you take a mouse on vacation…
He’ll want to drive the car.
Pretend driving lessons
Waiting for daddy and Owen to get back from the bathrooms, Katie jumped in the driver’s seat and had pretend lessons.
Kidisms 29
We were on a walk and saw 100 dog poop!
Katie, seeing a caboose on the side of the road: There’s a train bottom!
Katie and Gramma Jean were playing hide and seek. Gramma jumped out and scared her.
Katie: Ah! You scared my feelings!
Katie, with a water bottle: I’m pretending this is dia co.
Me: What is it?
Katie: Dia co. Like daddy.
Me: You mean what daddy drinks? Diet Coke?
Katie: Ahhh! I thought it was dia co!
Saying goodbye to Uncle Rob
Owen finally gets on the swing!
Owen doesn’t have the best balance or coordination—and doesn’t really like swings—so we didn’t have much success getting him on the rope swing. Until Gramma Jean got involved while we weren’t around, apparently.
And that was it. I tried to get him on it again but he’s just a big goofball and immediately falls off.
Now he has his very own ninja hood.
I was tired of him borrowing my Survivor buffs so I bought him a plain black version of his own.
Showing GJ his new bunting skills
And more swinging.
Look what we found in Gramma’s woods!
While Katie was telling me that the door on the tree wasn’t real and no one lives there, I spotted something.
Naturally Slim let me be a kid again!
I couldn’t have done this 130# ago! #ropeswing (I did it a few days ago as well but these pics were better.) Photo credits to my stepsister Beth who happened to arrive for a short visit!
I posted on Instagram tagging Naturally Slim and they wanted to share it! 🙂
Helpful little flower girl
Katie helped Gramma prune her flowers.
Guess what? More swinging.
Hide and seek with Gramma
Higher and higher, we have a happy girl!
Swinging Gramma!
Darrows!
It seems like everyone and their brother told us we HAD to stop and eat at Darrows in Mackinac City—but that it was often crazy busy with long wait times. So we decided to check it out on our way back to Grayling. There were open parking spots so we lucked out with barely a five-minute wait.
They’re known for their whitefish so Tom and I split a dinner and while it was quite good, I’m not sure it would be worth a long wait. That said, we saw the pies and cakes on the way out and both got a piece—Tom got pecan and I got a peanut butter chocolate cheesecake. [We didn’t end up eating them until that night and HOLY HELL were they delicious!]
Mighty Mac
It was crappy weather again so I didn’t get any good pics. 🙁
Our only napper.
This popped up in my feed again today.
It’s now up to 1100+ likes!
A book from Grannie
Grannie gave Katie one of the books they read while we were there and Grannie had Katie write her name in the front of it. 🙂
Pre-bedtime snuggles with Grannie
The very last sparkler.
The kids wanted to have one last fire, but it was really hot out and the flies were still biting, so we didn’t last too long. But, Owen had found one single sparkler left in the car so they shared it and that was it for the fire.
The cookie monsters…and more!
We’re on top of the world!
None of us had ever been up Brockway Mountain, so we did that after mini golf.
Owen took a selfie!
Mini golf in Copper Harbor
Unfortunately it was really hot and the biting flies were out so we played a bit quicker than we normally would have…which was a challenge since Katie and Owen have almost zero experience and needed quite a bit of guidance. 🙂
Daddy was the only one to get a hole in one, and daddy was the overall winner (he usually is, so I don’t know why he whines so much about playing LOL).
Some of the holes had “crazy” rules—this one you had to play with the hockey stick!
Grannie has much more patience than I do.
The kids helped Grannie make deviled eggs to surprise daddy for lunch.
Daddy didn’t need to use his iPad.
Papa and Grannie’s new fire pit!
Hauling it down to the landing!
Dinner at Harbor Haus is now a tradition.
Tonight was our second time eating at the Harbor Haus (a 4-star Yelp-reviewed German restaurant!) so now it’s officially a tradition when we visit up here!
- Appetizer: Crab Stuffed Risotto Balls, Wild Mushroom Risotto, Smoked Cheese, Panko Crust (amazing—could have been our dinner in entirety)
- Soup: Steak something-or-other (tomato-based and surprisingly delicious)
- Entree: Mixed Grill (three seasoned and grilled shrimp with a bearnaise-type sauce, bacon-wrapped jagerwurst with a dark sauce, flank steak with a mushroom sauce, and wild mushroom risotto—DELICIOUS)
- Dessert: Belgian Chocolate, Toasted Hazelnut & Frangelico Soufflé with Crème Anglaise
