Third Day of Vacation

Wednesday, September 16, we left our hotel in St. Ignace and drove a couple hours to Fayette State Park to tour the historic village. Unfortunately, the village was down a sloping road and Jessie absolutely refused to go down. So, Jon went on his own and we went back to the van and I fixed us sandwiches for lunch. That was disappointing to me.

From there we went back north to Palms Book State Park to see Kitch-iti-Kipi, "Big Springs", which is Michigan's largest spring. Over 10,000 gallons a minute gush from fissures in the underlying limestone. The flow continues throughout the year at a constant temperature of 45 degrees F.  

We have been there several times so I knew that Jessie wouldn't go on the self-operated observation raft, so we had an ice cream cone instead and Jon went on the raft. The first picture is looking down into the spring from the raft and the other one is the land surrounding the raft.

A short hour's drive found us in Munising at our hotel, and we ate dinner at the DogPatch. Jess did pretty good inside. Coming out we passed people going in and Jessie told them to "go somewhere else!" Sometimes I am so glad that people don't understand her words!

It was a tiring day, traveling 221 miles, but so nice. I was glad that we were going to be in this particular hotel for 2 nights.


Fast forward to two weeks  ...Wednesday, September 30. Rachel came and took Jessie to her Art Class then they went to Yates Cider Mill for cider and donuts and they had hot dogs for lunch at a Coney Island. Jessie vacuumed the carpets and they made pumpkin cupcakes for the Book Club tonight.

I went out in the morning and went to the post office, bank, Walgreen's, Kohl's, Michael's, Bath and Body Works, church, Meijer's for gas, McDonald's for lunch, then back to Walgreen's. It was a very productive morning followed by more paperwork this afternoon.

Jon came home from work tonight looking like "something the cat dragged in!" Oh, dear.