The Fourth of July was on a Wednesday this year, as you may know, and I just don't have enough vacation time to afford to take that whole week off and go camping. Someday! So we did the next best thing, we took the weekend after the 4th off, and headed North to get away from the sweltering heat of West Michigan.
Here's a tip for you...if you buy a car in the winter or early spring when it's too cold to worry about the air conditioner, check it anyway. We didn't check it out and it turns out that ours didn't work. And the previous owner conveniently didn't remember to tell us that. So on a day when the temperature gauge read 101 degrees F, we rolled the windows down and headed out on the open road.
Luckily for us, the temperature did drop as the weekend progressed and we had great weather for our camping trip. We went swimming, checked out the Traverse City Cherry Festival, and took in a show at the Interlochen Fine Arts Camp.
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| Bingo at the Cherry Festival. I don't know how many games we played, but we never won. |
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| Prairie Home Companion Live at Interlochen. It was a lot of fun to see everything that you can't see on radio. |
It was a successful camping trip in the end. But whenever I plan them, they usually are. :)
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| Campfire dinner - Hobo Packets. Because yes, I'm awesome at planning camp dinners. |
