Michigan Weekend

We just had a terrific Michigan weekend.

Houseguests Roger and Jean left Friday morning after a wonderful visit.  Friday afternoon Emery and I trekked 30 miles to Bear Lake to see family friends from Midland.  Sue and Phil have a house on the lake, and all their children and grandchildren were visiting.  As all were friends of Steve and Kate, it was a great visit.  Bear Lake is small-ish and shallow, thus warm and welcoming for little kids and pontoon boats and general family fun.  On the way home we stopped at Arcadia Bluffs golf course on the hills above Lake Michigan.  It is gorgeous, so now we will plan to play it with future guests.

Saturday was the art fair in Beulah, then a trip over to Crystal Mountain, a ski resort in winter and golf mecca in summer.  We rode the Alpine Slide….a fun way to keep the chair lift going up in summertime and a great bobsled course like ride coming down.  Lots of fun!!!  Attached are some pictures from this fun Saturday.

Traverse City called on Sunday as we needed to get a few things to make our rental house more “user friendly”.  So off to Target we went , then visited with our friends Ron and Kay at their gorgeous home on Grand Traverse Bay.  What a location they have.  After a great late lunch/early dinner at Bowers Harbor Inn on Mission Peninsula we headed home.

All in all we had a terrific weekend and we look forward to many more.