This post is only, um, a whole week late. I apologize. My memory seems to get worse these days. I really had to concentrate and remember what we did but once I remembered, it was like, OH YA! SO last year, Tony and his son Asa and myself spent the 4th of July on Beaver Island with some great friends of ours. It was a GREAT time and SO beautiful. This year, due to the fact that we just bought a house - we are trying to keep spending down. Not down to 0 but no big expenses. So we decided to stay close to home this year. Asa was out of state visiting his mom and Jon had to work all weekend so it was just Tony and I. What did we do...
Well, if you were in Marquette, you know that the International Food Fest was going on! Food!! If you follow my blog, you know I love food! :-) So I had seen the list of restaurants that had tents there for the weekend and Das Steinhaus was going to be there! YES!!! So Saturday morning we go for a nice drive down Lakeshore and out to Presque Isle. It was beautiful and I love going to the lake with my honey, when we get to share it. I showed him the rock stacks that are all along the shore, very cool, and the painted rock. So we get to the food festival and scope out the vendors - could not find Das Steinhaus at all. We finally found a tent that was not set up and had no sign, it was them! (hint from the guy setting up wearing the Das Steinhaus shirt!) They were just late in setting up and informed us it would be about 20 minutes or so - they were service brats, cheesebrats and pulled pork! YUM! So we opted to check out others in the meantime. This is a food fest right? You don't just try ONE place. So we head over to get Chinese, it was yummy! Has Sweet and Sour chicken and Chicken Teriyaki - From K's Oriental I believe - the chicken teriyaki was delish!!! So we strolled around, people watched. Have you ever just sat and people watched. What is that guys story? OR that lady's story? What had that person accomplished? What if that 90 year old woman was a broadway hit in her day! Who knows what great stories people have! Or freaky! Or weird! Or tragic and devastating! You just don't know! But it is fun to imagine!
So over 30 minutes later, the brats were finally being throw on the grill. The only disappointing part of the day is that they were so late in setting up and very disorganized but the food made up for it in my mind! We ordered Cheesebrats. I had onions on mine. Oh they were on this grilled bread, and it was just a delicious mess!!! Ten points and an A+ to Das Steinhaus for the food!! It was just amazing! I cannot wait to get to their restaurant and try the Schnitzel! I lived in Germany for 4 years and I remember it well!!!
After we ate, it was almost time for Chasin Steel - a great Bluegrass band. We were invited by Adam Carpenter, one of the members, to come and see them. Our first time seeing them and they were fantastic!!! They started off with Dixieland Delight by Alabama and I am sorry - I am a metalhead and 80's hair band girl by heart, I love my Metallica and Korn and Motley Crue and Disturbed every day but I love old school Alabama!!! I was a fan right off! Tony was impressed that they played Steven Earle and they did a GREAT JOB! We are fans and will be seeing them again when they come around! I actually booked Adam and Jake on the side for my company summer picnic! :-)
That was the end of our fun - we headed home and we were LAAAAAZY the rest of the day. Like laid around the house lazy. :-) It is great how you can do that whenever you want! Sunday was a work day. Tony had a drainage project he was putting in and I had yard sale stuff to get ready for, house cleaning. laundry and all of that fun stuff. We didn't even get to the fireworks but we did go watch the Independence Day Parade in Ishpeming on Monday and it was just great! I was very impressed with a lot of the floats, especially the North Iron Church! Ha! It was awesome!
And then back to work.
Loving the holidays in the U.P. -
Sarah
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