
Deer hunting season is sacred in MI. It's crazy. No one in my family were hunters so I didn't know what I was getting in for. DH had to be in Atlanta for work last year and missed opening day for the first time in 30 years. You would have thought there was a death in the family the way he carried on.
I used to work in the front office of a manufacturing company. It was nuts, if 2 women asked for the same day off at Christmas to get things done without their kids the bosses would act like it was the end of the world but half the shop was gone for opening week and that was fine.
Mackinaw Island is beautiful but with all of the horses, it has a certain odor, if you get my drift

It is expensive. We have never stayed on the island. One year we rented a cottage in the UP, and one year we stayed in Pellston. I would love to stay on the island, it would be very romantic in the evening after all of the day-trippers went home.