Our summer vacation this year took us to the UP in Michigan! We had never been up that far and I've always wanted to go-plus we were looking for somewhere a little cooler than the blazing heat of Utah from last year :)
Our first stop was crossing the Mackinac Bridge (stressful) and staying the night in St. Ignace. Unlike my normal overplanning, I didn't book our hotel until we were on the road and ended up staying in an extremely outdated motel (but clean!).
View from the balcony. It was overcast that afternoon. But Mackinac Island is in the background.
The kids thought this hairdryer in the bathroom was hilarious.
Happy to be right on the lake. Had to dodge a lot of goose poop to get down there!
Walking along Huron Boardwalk. The water was crazy clear!
We were recommended to go to Jose's Cantina for dinner and it did not disappoint! This is my dinner after we'd already eaten half of it!
Dave and I took a walk along the lake after dinner to work off some of the calories we consumed.
Had to watch the sunrise before starting our drive towards Munising.
I'm constantly forcing the family to stop at overlooks. This one was a dud but we got a picture anway.
Along the way to Munising (sort of) we stopped to see Kitch-Iti-Kipi. We highly recommend this stop! It's in Palms Book State Park near Manistique and is Michigan's biggest freshwater spring. We probably spent 45 minutes wandering around and taking the raft out to the middle. It was such a surreal and peaceful area and the water was the prettiest color!
Boys took a turn moving us out to the middle. Don't let my pictures fool you, there were probably 15 other people on the raft at the same time, it was really big!
We saw so many fish in the middle viewing area of the raft.
Up next-Munising!
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