Final Michigan Trip Post

I realized I forgot to tell the whole story of when Kris and I tried to look at the Grand Hotel.....So we already knew that we wouldn't be allowed on the porch or inside the hotel without dining reservations but we figured we could at least walk around the grounds and see some of the gardens....but we were wrong. We started to walk down the street the hotel is on only to find out that you aren't even allowed to walk down the street without having reservations at the hotel unless you pay a $10/person fee. Needless to say Kris was fairly outraged that we were prohibited from even walking down the street! So these are the few pictures we could grab before we were quickly escorted off the premise....

The Grand Hotel has the longest porch in the world!

After biking to the Grand Hotel we continued around the Island to the Inn at Stonecliff , which also boasts some of the nicest accommodations on the Island (yet again out of our price range!) but at least we were free to roam the grounds without paying a fee...

The only way to travel!

We also found the Mackinac Island Airport...*chuckle chuckle* no Boeing 747's here. Although they do offer sightseeing tours through the air that sounds pretty cool!

After seeing some of the perks I have to admit a career in politics sounds more appealing once we learned the Governor maintains a year round vacation cottage on the Island...I have to admit if I was the Governor I might not get a lot accomplished!

Later on our way off the Island we took some final pictures as we sadly said goodbye!

The Grand Hotel from the water

My attempt to prove how clean and clear the water is! Much cleaner than any of the Three Rivers!

After returning to the mainland we took one last excursion....over the Mackinac Island Bridge...which is the only way to drive between the Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula. Kris was very excited that I could now say I had been to the UP....

I loved the clouds in this picture

St. Ignaces is the other port that the ferries for Mackinac go to...

Sadly that is the last of our Michigan trip pictures. The rest of the time we were just visiting with some old friends (well old friends for Kris, new friends for me!). We did get to spend a day at the lake with Kevin and Karen and their kids plus lots of family members and we had a blast on the jetskis, the pontoon boat and water tubing (although we were very sore the next day!).

We definitely made the most of our week in Michigan and hope to return sooner rather than later!