Emma's First Day of Preschool

Yesterday was Emma's first day of Preschool.

This is her second year at this preschool and she

was very excited to see her friends and her teachers again.

Her class last year had 12 kids and this year there is 22.

It was quite hectic in there. Poor Paige was so sad to leave

her sister. She got to sit and play with the play doh

while Alex and I took pictures of Emma. When we had to leave

Paige cried for 45 minutes that she missed Emma. So funny since they

fight over toys all day I thought she would love having them

all to herself.

Labor Day Weekend Camping

We went to Mackinac Island,MI over

Labor Day Weekend. We camped near St. Ignace, MI

and took a ferry over to the island. There are no

motorized vehicles allowed on the island. Only bikes

and horse drawn carriages. It was such a cute

little town. They are most famously known for the fudge.

There are 17 fudge shops on the island and the island is only

about 10 miles around total. We certainly got our fill of

fudge.

This is what the town looked like. Very cute!! This is Fort Mackinac where the US fought

the British and lost.

Views from the top of the Fort Everyone gets around the island by walking,

bicycles or horses. We took a carriage ride

around the island. It lasted about 2 hours and

they tell you all about the history of the island.

It does smell like horses though.

This is the Grand Hotel. It is a 5 star hotel.

It is known for the movie "Somewhere in time" starring

Christopher Reeves(AKA Superman) and Jane Seymoure) which

was filmed there. We had to pay $12 just to look inside. After

6 PM formal dress atire is required. Men have to wear coat and tie and women

have to be in a skirt or dress. It costs anywhere between $350-$650 per night

to stay there. Not worth it to me but it was beautiful.

This is a view of the island from the ferry. Now we are back at our camp site and the girls

want to help dad make a fire really bad. Too bad about 5

minutes after the fire got going it started to rain.

It stopped about 20 minutes later and our little fire

survived.

Here are Emma & Paige being crazy in their new jammies.

I didn't think it was quite cold enough to wear these but the begged

to wear them.

Paige's New Big Girl Bed

Paige got a new bed over the weekend.

She was very excited. A little too excited as she

keeps getting out of it. She loves jumping on

it too. She has been going to bed late and

waking up early. It caught up with her

today as she fell asleep eating her lunch today.

Door County, Wisconsin Home to the famous Door County Cherries

We went to AL Johnsons's Swedish

Restaurant for breakfast. We were told they

Had the best pancakes. They were right. They were

awesome. They had grass growing on the roof

and there were goats on the roof eating the grass.

The girls thought this was pretty cool.

We saw some people with some awesome

looking ice cream comes so we stopped and

found the shop. The line was so long so that must mean

it was good. Well the wait was worth it. They were so

yummy and HUGE. The girls made an enormous

mess. After awhile it was melting so bad and getting all over them

that we had to convert their cones to cups.

We stopped at a winery and cherry shop.
Alex tatse tested some Cherry wines that were
made there locally and the girls and I checked
out the cherry trees and tried a variety of
cherry items in the store. We tried 3 kinds
of cherries, cherry salsa, cherry jam, cherry juice
and cherry dip. All were very good.





This is us in front of the beach on Green bay
which is part of Lake Michigan.

This is our trailer. We went camping for the weekend up in Door

County, Wisconsin. Door County is famous for Cherries and is

a strip of small quaint towns with lots of cool shops,

farmers markets, wineries, beaches and restaurants.

If you look at the map of Wisconsin, Door County is the thumb.

We spent the weekend driving from town to town checking out

all of the cute towns. We wished we had more time.

The girls playing in the sand box by our campsite.