Michigan's Adventure

We went to Michigan's Adventure this summer. It's a Cedar Point style amusement park only scaled down. It includes a nice water park and lots of rides for small children, unlike Cedar Point which when we went there last year had MY nerves on edge, never mind my son! At any rate, Michigan's Adventure is much more human scale, not so overwhelming and a bit cheaper. The park seemed well run by good people and it was very clean. I'm sure we'll be back a few more times.

Still MORE Renaissance Festival Pics!

So here are some more pictures from the field of honor, a garden and that gnome we met. Where the heck is my Vernor's????

Binder Park Zoo

We went to the Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek, Michigan. Yes, it's the same place that's the headquarters to Kellogg's Cereal. It's a nice little zoo, if you're in the area, I wouldn't go out of my way for it, like we did, but we did get to feed the giraffe which was worth the price of admission.

Forward Into The Past

Just because it was a busy summer and I was very lazy when it came to blogging, I'm gonna do a retrospective kinda, sorta. Just cool pictures from the summer as I can do 'em. So we have some fireworks, a first communion, Niagara Falls and the U.S.S. Silversides, an old WWII submarine that is a museum on the West Coast of Michigan.

More Renaissance Pictures

Just far behind and frankly not feeling too great but here are some shots from the Renaissance Festival.

Metropolitan Beach

On Labor Day weekend, I launched at the Metro Beach launch ramp and motored over to the floating docks in the North Marina. We then had a nice little cookout and played putt-putt golf. Unfortunately I didn't take in pictures as I was entirely in the moment (and working my butt off launching and piloting the boat, etc.) So we spent the night at the marina, something we haven't done in a number of years. What I realized is that I REALLY need to get new berth cushions made and that my midshipmen will probably be sleeping on deck in a year or two, so there are a whole bunch of projects to make that happen. Overall we had a great time and the next day we motored around the bay and the canals a bit (it wasn't really windy enough for a good sail). We left the boat in again overnight and on Sunday I took some family for a miserable sail on Lake St. Clair. Not enough wind, too many big powerboats add up to a less than wonderful time, but it's always nice to be on the water in any case.