Pictured Rocks Cruise - Munising, MI

So it has been a couple of weeks since I last wrote. I visited another beautiful place! Let me start off my giving some shout outs, I don't remember if I did last time. So Cruisin Coffee on Third and Prospect is my new coffee love. French Vanilla or White Chocolate. To die for. So I have only lived here for three months. I moved up on April 18th. But it has been one year this weekend since I started dating my sweetiepie. So, we had these gift certificates for the Pictured Rock boat cruise in Munising (Thank you to Rosemary at The Eagle, you rock!!) so Saturday, we headed out.

We stopped first at the Renaissance Faire in Ishpeming. TO be honest, I was a little disappointed, as far as Ren faires go. I have seen a couple and they are supposed to be about the lifestyle the people lived back then, teaching you about the way they lived, their dress, their skills, their cooking, weaponry, etc. This one was very small and basically was more like a little vendor fair. There were vendors there that had nothing to do with the Renaissance era. We took the dog and walked around though, it was a beautiful day. And I got a grape snowcone on the way out. Worth it.

Off to Munising. So we got there early, tootled around. Rosemary I remember told me to stop at Johnny Dogs if we ever went there so we found it. A small roadside place right downtown - one little deck with a few tables and some counters and a couple of picnic tables off the deck. They serve gourmet hotdogs and sandwiches. OMG it was amazing! Tony had Shawns G Dog and I had the chili cheese, I do plan on going back some day. I spotted something with orange BBQ and pulled pork or something I am dying to try. So we loved that, we were very satisfied. Then we drove around a bit, stopped at the Frozen Flamingo for a cone and headed over to the boat cruise for 4 PM. We got the LAST 2 tickets. I guess we should have planned a little better. For anyone ever planning on going, if you want to sit in the upper deck, you have to get there about an hour before the boat leaves. So we sat in lower deck, I was disappointed but not for long. The cruise was gorgeous. They tell you the history of Munising and of Grand Island and everything you pass. The colors and rock formations that are made just from all of the erosion is just gorgeous. We passed Lovers Leap and Miners Castle and Battleship Row - all rock formations you learn about on the cruise. We even went inside Chapel Cove, which was pretty awesome. Lake Superior is so clear, it really just made me want to jump in the water.

IT was just a gorgeous day out and perfect for the cruise, we really enjoyed it. Oh we did go up to the Grand Island scenic overlook to take some pictures too! Someday when I figure out how to post pictures on here, I will get a slideshow up of all of the wonderful places we have gone.

I still am in love with Lake Superior. It never gets old. The drive in never gets old. Seeing it every day before and after work never gets old. GOing out and picking rocks and just putting my feet in the water (I do this quite often) - it never gets old. I know I will be whiney this winter, as I do not like the cold and the snow, but I will get used to it, just like I did in Green Bay. And summer will come back again. And the lake will always be here. To me, even though I am 40, this is a whole new beginning up here, a whole new future and I could not imagine spending it with anyone else.

Tonight we spent a couple hours at the Ore Dock Brewing company jamming out with blues singer Charlie Parr. Very entertaining and he has a bad ass stainless steel guitar - made in Saginaw, MI. We won't hold that against him.

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To another beautiful weekend in the U.P. - I see a lot of future here. ENJOY THE PICS!

Gnight xoxoxox

~S