My 100th Post

I just noticed that this is my 100th post...I guess that's some sort of milestone, especially for me since I sometimes tend to get bored with something and stop doing it. While I have stopped blogging for long periods of time, I keep coming back to it, so I guess that's either progress, growing up, or both.

Today is our first official day back from vacation and what a wonderful vacation it was. Our best yet! We crammed an awful lot into a 9 day trip, but we sure had fun. We flew on a red-eye on Friday June 29th and landed in Chicago on the morning of June 30th. We then drove up to Germantown, Wisconsin where we had breakfast with my cousin Andi, her boyfriend Jim, and my Aunt Joan and Uncle Wally. We ate at the Cracker Barrel, which was first for Emmett. Yummy! Then we kept driving until we arrived at Silver City, Michigan where we stayed overnight before backpacking into the Porcupine Mountains and staying in the cutest Yurt. We stayed there overnight and then hiked out and drove to Munising, Michigan where I would have loved to have gone diving and seen the pictured rocks, but alas, it was only an overnight stop at the Terrace Lodge before heading to Mackinac Island overnight. THAT was truly awesome and we all fell in love with the island. I think the last time I was there I was about 7 years old and it is even better than I remembered. After one night on the island we bombed down to Holly, Michigan where we had dinner with my Grandma and then visited my friend, Sheri. We spent the night at Grandma's and then headed up to Lexington, Michigan for a couple of days, stopping on the way to eat brunch at the St. Clair Inn, which had wonderful atmosphere and okay food - which is to say the food was good, but just didn't quite live up to the elegant surroundings. After two days of enjoying Lexington, especially the beach and the lake (Michigan's version of paradise!), we headed to Grand Rapids for Michael and Aurora's wedding on 7/7/07 - and I was reminded that as cool as that date is, I'm so happy that Emmett and I pressed on and got married last summer. Marriage has been too wonderful to have waited! :-) The wedding was very pretty, in a garden next to a waterfall, and then the reception at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel - it was all very nice and Thomas had a lot of fun dancing with a bridesmaid. It was nice seeing my Mom and Jerry and Aunt Brenda and Grandma Juanita again, too. We all had a late brunch together and then they headed to Detroit to visit family and we pressed on for Chicago, stopping to enjoy a little fruit stand along the way and get one last glimpse of Lake Michigan. We stayed overnight in Chicago and then flew out yesterday morning. The airport was a ZOO!

It was all fantastic....I missed getting to see my family on my Mom's side, and that was a bummer, but we had such limited time and so much planned. Hopefully I can come back again soon.


Above is a family photo from Grandma's 93rd Birthday.

Ahhh, now back home and back to work.

Love,
Melissa