More thoughts from our vacation to the "Yooper" (or the Upper Peninsula of Michigan). For some reason the locals have been calling it the yooper, like a lazy-day way to say U-P. Interesting.
1. LegoMaster and DadOfAllTrades decide to try to take some photos of the family with the stop timer on the camera. It is quite entertaining to me to watch my son teach my husband how to work an electronic device. Not because DadOfAllTrades cannot do it, He is more than capable. But because it amazes me how kiddos pick up on how to work gadgets on their own while the parents are still fumbling with the written directions. We take some slapstick shots of ourselves while others are looking on wondering what we are doing. One lady even offers to take the photo for us. I just tell her that we are having fun, so no, but thanks for the offer.
2. I am going to start today with last night. It rained. A lot of rain. Raining ALL night. And this prompted little boys to empty their bladders more than once, sometimes in their sleep. Believe folks when they tell you that the sound of running water can make one have to pee.
3. I am very impressed with the display in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and the boys are very interested in learning about what they are seeing. I am glad we read the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald because they knew what they were going to see and it made it that much more exciting for them. The only bummer is that one must be 8 years old or older to climb the lighthouse, so Buzz was bummed. We did hear the fog siren go off many times. And we did get to walk along Lake Superior, DadOfAllTrades and my first time to touch that lake, and we collected some really great rocks that wash up from the lake. Cool. DadOfAllTrades has now touched all five Great Lakes. Whoot!
4. On the way back, DadOfAllTrades and I spy a small sign for a lighthouse and decide spur of the moment to venture to see it. The boys are busy watching movies, so they don’t even realize we turned. The road is the sandy dirt they have around here, and DadOfAllTrades gets a little twinkle in his eye. He switches to 4-wheel-drive and starts bajaing. The boys finally catch on and turn off the movies in favor of telling DadOfAllTrades where to slide around next. It is really fun to listen to them wonder how high the splash of the water will be. Remember how it has been raining very hard for over 24 hours? There are plenty of large puddles to ride through. It turns out this lighthouse is 18 miles from the turn and at mile 15 we start to wonder if it is a hoax. The sandy road is getting narrower and the trees are getting lusher. Every once in a while we see a driveway to somewhere. This would be a great spot to grab someone and make them disappear forever. Just sayin’.
5. After days of rain, DadOfAllTrades decides to just let the boys play. They busy themselves with the matchbox cars and a race track of their own making while they pretend they are NASCAR drivers. Buzz is covered from ankle to hip with black, sandy mud. DadOfAllTrades is getting the tackle together. This is vacation!
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