Family Trip June 2014
This summer for our family "experience" vacation we chose to visit Mackinaw. Since it worked in past vacations, we drove thru the night, eliminating the "are we there yet", "how many more miles" "can we watch a movie" questions. And it was lovely. We left around 9pm and arrived in Michigan around 7am with the 1hr time change. Besides the threat of thunderstorms and a small detour glitch we arrived safe and sound ready for a good hearty breakfast. We found a not-so-good greasy spoon type restaurant in St. Agnes. Nothing really about that place was good. Oh well...win some, lose some. We couldn't check into our VRBO until 3pm so we had quite a bit of time to check out St. Agnes, the bridge and Mackinaw City. All the girls, except Emily were excited about traveling on the bridge. After she realized it wasn't bad and that we'd be traveling over it a few more times, she felt more at ease. In Mackinaw City, our homebase, we found the grocery store, where we had to get ferry tickets, cute stores to shop at and all the various tourist attractions we planned on going to. We also got ICE CREAM!! With a few hours left before check in we headed to the park down the road from our place had a picnic lunch, played, napped and read. But before we did that we went to the first lighthouse we wanted to see.
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Our VRBO was interesting. Its an old cottage on Lake Michigan right on the shore. Great location, however, with all the shrubbery we couldn't make an easy way down to the shore, let alone see the bridge which they advertised in their description. The house was a 5 generation family home filled with antiques. Not ideal for a family with kids, but we thought we could make the best of things. There was alot of "don't touch that", "be careful", "get out of there" "watch Lauren!" everyday we were there. The house was a disappointment to say the least. It was hard to feel at home.
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