Indiana & Northern Michigan

We arrived on Saturday afternoon. Ended up spending a little more time in Indianapolis than planned but went to a quilt show while there. This one dated back to the Civil War. All of us like the pattern.

Spent some time on Sunday afternoon looking through lots of old photos with Mom, Paul, and Christine. Here's an interesting one that illustrates how sweet and innocent all of us really were (Clean too!). Please note how Carolyn looked up to me even then.

Off to dinner with the family. It's always nice to see and visit with everyone. Unfortunately, not everyone was able to come.

On Monday, Carolyn & I headed for Michigan and found us a couple of Big Boys. It was the best we could do! Carolyn recalled the "Big Boy" piggy bank that she had when she was young. If I remember correctly, it was a gift from Mom and Dad when they went to Nashville leaving us behind.

The fall colors are lovely just like I had hoped with lots of reds. We also enjoyed the tremendous variety of evergreens...like seeing Christmas trees everywhere. Many were such a rich shade of blue/green that they looked as if they had been painted.

The lake looked choppy with lots of waves. At one point today, we even saw people surfing in Lake Michigan. Of course, they had on wet suits. We knew we had arrived in Mackinac City when we saw the towers for the suspension bridge. Upon arrival, advisories were posted due to high winds (65 mph) with speed limits of 20 mph for tractor trailers. We decided to cross the bridge tomorrow and take a ferry over to Mackinac Island (lets hope the winds are calm!!!!).