I know I've probably mentioned all this before, but I'm super excited, so I'm sorry for the repeat info, LOL!!!!!
Our hotel is in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, which is the oldest city in Michigan.
http://www.saultstemarie.com/
LOTS of history, perfect for Tyler, including some supposedly "haunted" places which he wants to check out.
It's about a 4 and a half hour drive up to the hotel, and we're hoping to get there in time to have lunch in the area, then check in to the hotel on Monday. After checking in, we're planning on heading over to the Locks to watch boats go through and then just "wing it" the rest of the first day because we'll probably be tired from all those hours in the car. Hotel has an indoor pool, so maybe just some swimming, I don't know, whatever strikes us.
Tuesday the plan is to head up to Whitefish Point to go to Tyler's highlight of the trip, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. He wants to see the bell which was recovered from the Edmund Fitzgerald wreck and has been wanting to go here for 3 years now! This is what prompted the trip, I just had to build more stuff around it.
http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/
After the shipwreck museum, we'll head down to Paradise to Tahquamenon Falls State Park.
http://www.superiorsights.com/information/tahquamenonfalls/ There's one path that leads to a moose viewing area, which is what I'm hoping most to see this trip. Every since living in Wyoming for a while in Grand Teton National Park and seeing moose regularly, I've just loved them!
Wednesday the plan is to drive across the International Bridge into Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and head to the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Center:
http://www.bushplane.com/visitors-canadian-bushplane-heritage/ Looks so fun!
After that we'll head back over to MI and visit the Point Iroquois Lighthouse:
http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/superior/iroquois/iroquois.htm (if we can make it on time, otherwise we might have to squeeze that in another day).
Thursday we're planning on spending the day on Mackinac Island. I purchased a package deal that includes the ferry ride to the island, an hour narrated carriage tour of the island, a museum of historical carriages, and entrance to Fort Mackinac:
http://www.mackinacparks.com/fort-mackinac/
Friday, after checking out of the hotel, we plan on visiting a retired freighter turned into a museum:
http://www.thevalleycamp.com/museum-ship-valley-camp-3/ Tyler's super excited about that one because in the cargo hold area of the ship there is a display of wreckage from the Edmund Fitzgerald.
We'll head back down to the lower peninsula afterwards and if we find an interesting place to stay along the way, will spend another night somewhere and get home late Saturday. I just got tired of planning and decided we'll just "wing it" the last day and go where the wind blows us, see whatever strikes our fancy.
We're also trying to coordinate a get together with my childhood best friend Connie (we met when I was 5 and she was 4 when her family moved into the house 2 houses away from ours). We were inseparable until she moved away for college and boys came between us. We had a falling out and lost contact for about 10 years, had brief contact but still had bad feelings, so we lost contact again until 2001 when we got together when she was in town and went to a football game together. We've been trying to repair our relationship over these past years, I even went to her wedding in 2003, and we've both kept updated with each others' kids and lives. Hoping for a wonderful reunion! We both feel it's time and have put the past completely behind us.
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followed by a facial at 9am. I wanted to do them back 2 back, and that was the only time available. I figure, after that, I'll go by the GKTW village to drop off the tree and maybe see a movie. I'm supposed to go to a cook out at 4pm tomorrow - would prefer not to come home before that cuz then there's a chance I won't go back out. 
