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Monday, April 4, 2011

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Made it home...

We started our day in Mackinaw City, MI in some foggy drizzly weather, here is a picture of one of the bridge towers, as we headed across it into the UP of Michigan. Then we hopped on highway 2 heading west through the UP, and then we came across this guy out standing in his field!
We had to turn around, and go back to the road he was close to and snap this picture, pretty creative isn't it? It was about 60-70 feet off the road in a hay field.


The rest of our drive across the UP was not that eventful, driving in some rain, more misty weather, and even about 90 miles of snow falling quite heavily but the roads stayed wet, no slush build up which made for faster travel. When we got to Ashland, WI the sun came out finally and we drove in partly cloudy skys the rest of the way home.


Arriving home we had two very happy dogs and a lot less snow around, and a driveway that was almost dry. Good to be home and hopefully you all enjoyed my blog entries of our trip to see Raquel, Eric and Miles...it was alot of miles but worth everyone of them!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

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White Knuckle Driving


Today was pack up your bags and start the trip home. We said our goodbyes to Raquel and Eric and Miles, we had a great time, and it was a very special visit to spent some quality time with our new grandson Miles.

He had a few moments in the wee hours of the morning, but hey he is just 3 weeks old, and other then that he was so good. We were impressed how well Eric and Raquel have adjusted to having a new baby in their family!


The picture above was from our first stop, in Frankemuth to the World Famous Bronner's Christmas Store, well we did stop at a Lennox outlet store while we waited for the Bronner's store to open, and we also grabbed a breakfast sandwich at the Frankenmuth Kaffe.

This place is huge and has Christmas Decor all year around, it is easily the size of a football field or bigger, with all kinds of displays and also tons of ornaments, village stuff and greenery and etc.etc.etc.etc...It is almost overload to the senses.

This picture of the flying horse is for all my granddaughters, Ashley, Livia, Rebekah and Adeline! I thought of you all when I saw this, it was the size of an actual small pony suspended from the roof! When we left, Bronner's you can see in the picture is was snowing, huge snow flakes...which made for a very long drive for the next 210 miles to Mackinaw, MI.


Our speed varied from 25 mph at times to 55 mph, with the majority of the time the speed was around 40mph. The Interstate had snow and slush, and icy conditions and was mostly just one long line of cars in the same lane, because the other lane had no wheel tracks.


We arrived in Mackinaw, booked a room in a hotel, that looks towards the the bridge. which is the picture below just as the lights came on, and you can see the visibility is only about 3/4 mile.

After some supper, we are now enjoying the ACM Awards on the Tv, and will be enjoying the comfort of an actual bed tonight! Tomorrow starts the 450 plus miles or more left to get home, hopefully with better driving conditions, forecast is for nicer weather.