Ok so as promised, a multimedia extravaganza. The only sense you'll deprive with this is smell I think.
The Harrison family is known for a couple things. Being a family of (mostly) engineers, we're a solid group of dorks and we love it...so what better way to start out a family vacation than....
Yup...Star Wars...In Concert. Really? You want to try to find a combination I'd geek out about more than symphony and Star Wars? Ok well we found one in my dessert. I read the description and I had to have it...whiskey, chocolate and cake. Pair that with my cappuccino and I was a happy happy girl (in desperate need of her TurboFire or a run...)
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| From Star Wars In Concert! |
For those who don't know, I'm a marching band dork. Not just a dork...I was the drum major (conductor for the non bandos out there) in high school and marched in the Michigan Marching Band. As soon as I saw this score, I had to send it to my bff Christen as she was a drum major too. We were the rockstar DMs of the tri county area...we would have LOVED conducting this...
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| From Star Wars In Concert! |
And then because I've developed a slight obsession with Chewbacca, I had to take a picture with him!
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| From Star Wars In Concert! |
From there we headed up to our campsite where we ran into the second thing for which the Harrison family is known: bringing a thunderstorm to any campsite. Not kidding, a few years ago we ended a 3 month drought in Indiana by going camping. Rained for 3 days straight and it was the first trip which we almost left camp for 4 solid walls and a dry bed...but we toughed it out. ANYWAY...back to 2010. We're driving up, lil sis (referenced throughout this blog as Stinker) is riding with me and we're watching this **spectacular** lightening show in our path...before we realize that's right over camp. I hand her my phone, direct her to my weather app and the entire radar map for the Ludington and surrounding area is red. Not good. I slept in the car because I didn't want my sleeping bag to get soaked between my car and the tent...and something about all that lightening didn't seem fun either. Regardless, we survived another "character building experience" as Daddy has labeled them.
Dry off, clean up, and back into the cars to meet some friends at their sailboat they had docked up this way for the summer. Stinker is into boats like I am cars so she was thrilled when Captain allowed her to take over the helm. She did great!
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I was trying not to get seasick (fail) and tried to focus on taking some good pictures...only got a couple.
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| From Harrison family Camping trip 2010 - 1 of 3 |
The next day I got up determined to finally get that run...and run I did. I felt great and really enjoyed the serenity and calm of the sunrise in Northern Michigan. G-o-r-g-e-o-u-s.
The view
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| From Harrison family Camping trip 2010 - 2 of 3 |
The hill
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The serenity
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I got back from my run and joined the family on our bikes for a ride out to the same lighthouse to which I almost ran less than an hour before...more exercise with the family! Yay! I love seeing my family active. This time I had my camera and caught some fun shots...we couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day! Here are my favorite shots.
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| From Harrison family Camping trip 2010 - 2 of 3 |
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| From Harrison family Camping trip 2010 - 2 of 3 |
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| From Harrison family Camping trip 2010 - 2 of 3 |
Back to camp with us to get cleaned up and head out to a family tradition, Mac Woods Dune Rides. Seriously a blast. If you've never been out on the dunes like this, I highly recommend it. Great view of the lake too as you can see in the video :-)
To make things even cooler, we were in an International truck! For those who don't know, I work for Navistar, the holding company of International Truck. We no longer make this model so it was cool to ride in a piece of my company's history. Of course a photo shoot was in order!
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In the garage was one of the older models and I love this grille...
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One more night of enjoying the campsite...love campfires :-)
All too soon it was time to head back. Mom and I had a banquet Sunday so we drove back Saturday afternoon. I had a cute chipmunk buddy while I was loading the car...the camera was already packed though so I had to "shoot" him with my phone...can you find him?
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Lil Silver Surfer did a great job...Mom and I took back a LOT of stuff...
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| From Harrison family Camping trip 2010 - 3 of 3 |
So that was the trip. Lots of fun, good times, great family memories, loved getting "away from it all" for sure...and with our family, its always an adventure!
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