Black Rocks, Coco's, Maritime Museum, The Port Side, a car show, the Iron Ore Museum, Country Grill and Da Yooper Tourist Trap. All a part of our Father's Day weekend. Tony's dad, Lincoln, came up to see us for Father's Day weekend. Of course we had to take him site seeing...he fell in love with Black Rocks, as I did when I first saw it. You can't explain Black Rocks to people and you can't take a picture and get them to feel how you did when you went to see it. It is something they need to see and experience for yourself. The beauty, the magnificence of it all, the sounds of the waves, gently slapping up against the rocks....so lightly, but hard enough to say hey, I am here and I am magnanimous.....the smell...of the clean air, of the lake, just all of it. There are no words that I can tell you to make you fully understand it all or even imagine the experience and there are no pictures that can show you. It would be a picture of some big black rocks and a lake. It would be beautiful. But it would not be YOUR experience. I believe everyone who comes to Black Rocks has their own experience, their own emotions. I have had many. From pure happiness in realizing that I know I made the right decision in moving up here to just emotional sorrow, letting go of some things that needed to be let go of. It is a good place to do that - to let go of things, but it is a good place to go and just smile and let the wind touch your face, and to be in love and be happy and healthy...it is just a good place to be who you are.
Ok enough of that sappiness. So off to lunch, we stopped at Coco's, which I have been dying to go try! So I was excited!! I was expecting it to be a little more formal than it was but I was not disappointed. It had a very casual lakeside atmosphere about it, which is what it was, a very casual lakeside restaurant. Our waiter was Ethan and he was very awesome - the customer service was great, he took care of everything, checked on us many times, and made sure we were well taken care of. The food, well, the food was amazing. I had the French Dip and it was just outstanding. The boys had burgers and Tony's dad had a Rueben and everyone was very very pleased with their food. Oh, and if you are a fan of sweet potato, order them here...there is a to die for maple dip they give you. Heaven. Tony and I WILL be coming back here on date night to test out dinner!! The next stop was the Maritime Museum. We knew Lincoln would like this, as he has been a sailor all of his life. So off to the museum we went and it was very neat. Even if you are not a sailor or a fisherman or anything of the sort (like me), it was still pretty neat to read about the history of some of the big shipwrecks on Lake Superior. And they have a pretty neat gift shop. Someday I will go back, there are little light houses there that need to be in my house. :-)
After the Maritime Museum, we headed out to Lankenenland. This is the park full of Junkyard Art. You can read about this in a previous post. That was very enjoyable as well. Back into town, we went to the Port Side for dinner. I went here once before and I had ordered the wrong thing and didn't like it, it was a fish I knew I didn't like, but had forgotten. So anyhow, we all ate...I had a chimichanga and it was SO filling and SO amazing YUUM. The rest is sitting in my fridge. Again, everyone happy with their meals. Forgive me, I cannot remember our waitress's name - short blonde spiky hair I believe. She was awesome too. Another hit. Back home and we all pretty much crashed. It was a long day in the U.P. and we were all done for. So Sunday we headed out to the Yooper Tourist Trap. This is always a hit with visitors, well, because it has everything Yooper and you can spend hours in there reading all of the fun stuff they have. After our purchases there (why can't I ever leave there without spending money), off to the Country Grill for brunch. They were busier than we had ever seen them but we got in and got seated. The buffet was good as usual, and we were stuffed again. After food we hit Negaunee for the car show and the Iron Ore Museum. The car show was interesting, not a ton of cars there but some neat ones, including my Bronco on the way out. Someday. The Iron Ore Museum is A LOT of information. You could spend a weekend reading all about the history, the process, the past-present of mining and how they lived, all kinds of stuff. Note...do not touch the red rocks in the cart....they stain. In my defense, there was no sign telling me not to play with the red rocks. After another long day, we headed home and dad headed back south. It was a good weekend and a great visit.
On a more personal note, I know now where my boyfriend gets his amazing personality and his big heart from. Thanks for the visit Link, you are welcome back anytime. No guns at the window, I promise ;-) Happy Father's Day to all of the dads out there, whether you are a dad, a stepdad, a grandfather, a single mom with no dad around to help with the kids, all of you. Thank you for being there for your kids. And I hope your weekend was as blessed as mine was. ~Sarah
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