It has been a couple of days without wifi so I have several days to catch up on. Right now, we re in Chicago with John, Peggy and Ella. We spent most of Wednesday getting back into the states, and then most of Thursday getting to Chicago. Again, great weather- it is hard to believe how fortunate we have been for all of our trip. Our miles so far are at 7,300- that's a lot of mileage!
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| It is hard to see but this is the border crossing at Sault St. Marie, Ontario & Michigan |
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| Point Iroquois Lighthouse in Hiawatha State Forest- the lighthouse in the background was built in the mid- 1800's and we able to climb it to the top- what a beautiful view of Lake Superior! |
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| Lake Superior- This lighthouse above, is on a point known as the Graveyard of the Great Lakes- The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last ship to go down here in 1975. |
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We are back to sandy beaches- no more rocky shore lines |
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| We stayed in Oconto, Wisconsin at the Oconto Motel on Wednesday night |
We got into Chicago early afternoon on Thursday. John and Peggy had made plans to get massages and then have dinner and stay at a B&B- we had Ella all to ourselves for the night!!! We went for a walk in the park nearby and watched a baseball game and then to the playground. Ella brought along her baby for the walk.
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| Here we are watching the ball game. Ella's and her baby loved it! |
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Cheese! |
This morning we headed our to Andersonville for coffee- John and Peggy do not drink coffee or even have a coffee pot. It has become tradition to make early morning treks to the coffee shop, because, I can not go without morning coffee! So we headed off with Ella to Starbucks- John and Peggy would be returning later on in the morning. We were not planning on being gone long, so I did not bring a diaper bag. We had only just gotten our coffee when we needed to change the diaper- oops! We headed back towards the apartment only to find that the door lock was broken and we could not get in. We tried all different ways to get in but couldn't. Finally we saw a phone number on a sign posted in front and called it and explained our dilema- messy diaper, no diaper bag, grandparents in charge, locked out...etc! In the meantime, John and Peggy came back and eventually the building repair person arrived and with a ladder John could climb in one of his apartment windows. Ella meanwhile, played in the sprinkler that had been set out to water the grass -totally oblivious to the fact that we had been locked out for 1-1/2 hours!! (yes, still wearing the dirty diaper)
More later- we are thinking about heading to the beach- not sure yet. Ella is napping so we will see what do do once she is up.
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