Michigan!

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Reason #1 we LOVE Michigan and why it's absolutely worth every minute of the 13.5 hour drive...Bill, Donna, Abby, Kate, Hannah, Matt, Jack, Emily and their newest addition Gigi:)

Thank you, Barkers, for letting us join your Glen Lake summers! 

 

...and the 8,257 other reasons we LOVE trekking to Michigan...

 

 

Lake Michigan on a VERY, VERY windy day.

Yes, those are crazy people all the way down there that HAVE to hike all the way back up.

The crew coming back in...

Andrew loved doing anything and everything with Matt all week, who is such a delightful and polite young man at only 15:)

 

A family tradition of looking for special rocks in Lake Michigan, this was by far the most company we'd ever had on the beach.

Grandma telling Andrew the legend of the Sleeping Bear Dunes.

Margaret ADORES Abby, as does Andrew..."she's a BIG TEN college athlete!"

 

"I was here.  BB"

 

Jack, Hannah, Matt, Abby, Margaret

My sentimental one...

 

GoPRO Time!

 

The Running Bear 5k was during our week there for the first time...what a fun race---and FLAT for this C'ville runnger!  7:30 PR only possible because I was literally chasing collegiate athletes.  Andrew had a PR, but for his slowest 5k ever.  Evidently, he is motivated by running races with his friends in the school 5k as opposed to with cousins and strangers.  It was painful.  Not gonna lie.

Big brother Matt!

 

Andrew was psyched to have a basketball goal this year, new to the experience thanks to Bill and Donna's purchase of the property adjacent to Villa Glen.

 

Donna kicking ass wake surfing at sunset.

 

The first of MANY meals to and from Michigan...13.5 hours each way this time.

 

One word = Melatonin

(We hit the road straight from Champs, hence the team tie-dyes.)

 

 

Matthew's first tubing!

 

Donna demonstrating proper cherry pit spitting at Cherry Republic...and she is damn good.  That girl's got distance!

Celebrating Kate's 21st!

The sunsets never get old...

 

Be still, my heart...

 

 

 "Faster, Dad.  Faster."

"Stop, Dad, Stop."

Our last summer with a diaper bum:(