Traverse City

Chris had a great opportunity to work at a migrant dental clinic in Traverse City, Michigan. He was there for two weeks. I went up and visited him one weekend. Here are a few pictures of Northern Michigan. We had so much fun. It was really beautiful.

Okay, so I am trying something new. Getting pictures from the web. It was really hard. Nobody wants to share their pictures. Here is the best one I could find to give you an idea of were we went. So do you see Detroit down on the right? Ann Arbor (were we live) is 45 min west of there. We went to Traverse City, which is up on the west side of the map. It is on the Lake Michigan side. Then we went from there to Mackinac Island, which is up at the top of the Lower Peninsula. It is a small island on Lake Huron.

Here we are at Traverse Bay

Here I am watching a turtle swim that was covered in sea weed

We then went to Sleepy Bear Dunes, which are huge sand hills. We hiked about half way up. There is a lake in the background. Michigan has lakes all over the place.



We played Frisbee on the beach and watch the sunset go down on one of Lake Michigan's many beaches.

The next day we drove to Mackinac City and took a boat over to Mackinac Island. Here we are on the boat.

Mackinac Island only allows horses and bikes on the island as a mode of transportation. We rented some cool bikes and biked around the whole island. It was about 8 miles. Here are are posing with our snazzy bikes.

Here is an view of the harbor from a hill top on the island. The island closes from December to April or when ever the ice melts on the lake.

After the fun bike ride

View of the main street on the island. Notice how bikes rule the street. It was so fun seeing parking spots just for bikes. We had a great weekend seeing Northern Michigan.