Up North

Last week our fam­ily was enjoy­ing a vaca­tion with Mike’s par­ents and sis­ter. We went Up North as us Michi­gan­ders call it. Up North to a Michi­gan­der can mean any­thing above the halfway point of the State. For me it specif­i­cally means thirty-minutes north of Tra­verse City, Michi­gan. Small towns, gen­tle rolling hills, cherry farms, winer­ies, Lake Michi­gan, Sleep­ing Bear Dunes, putting together puz­zles, mak­ing a fire, along with lim­ited cell phone & inter­net ser­vice depend­ing on where you are, and the quiet still­ness of slow­ing down to enjoy the day. It was beau­ti­ful. Relax­ing. Noth­ing like get­ting up and hear­ing the sound of the water. Or being able to catch a view of it as you drink your morn­ing coffee.

It was truly a great time.

And then we all had to come back to real life.

Back home.

In fact, before we even got home life hit us. It hit us hard. BAM! Sat­ur­day as we headed home Mamacita got car sick, very, very, very car sick.  It was bad. I felt so bad for her, she said it just hit her all of a sud­den, after we attempted to stop for lunch & need­less to say we couldn’t stay stopped there for long.  Then as we drove Mike got a call from work and before we even had the car unloaded he was work­ing to fix a prob­lem. Yes­ter­day I felt sick, not sure why, but it wasn’t fun.  And yeah, life was back to normal.

Now I am look­ing through pic­tures and already plan­ning for the next time.

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