Traverse (Moomers) City

Our new friend Cori imposed on us enough! Becca and I finally decided enough was enough and it was time to turn the tables and invite ourselves to her city for a change. She graciously accepted on a moments notice and we drove up for the weekend.

Friday night, I was taught how to make S'mores over the small bon fire in Cori's back yard. It's not like I didn't know how to make them, but apparently my idea was different then theirs. With two girls, sometimes it's best to to pick and chose your battles and I decided this was one not worth fighting over. For the record, when making a S'more, it's half a Hershey's bar, one gram and two marshmallows. The girls, for some reason wanted to only use small pieces of the Hershey's bar, which seemed silly to me.

Saturday was a full day. Our first adventure was climbing the Sleeping Bear Dunes. Due to a tactical navigation error, we didn't reach the top of the dune to overlook Lake Michigan. Instead we came to the top of the dune only to see another steeper dune, then after climbing to the top of that dune was a great view...of more dunes. By that point Becca had enough of the sand of this adventure and we headed back to increase our chances of finding water. The next stop was the scenic tour (by car) where we were able to stop and walk to a lookout. The view is incredible and the water color is amazing (hence the picture). We then headed north and grabbed lunch, continued further north to visit a lighthouse and then stopped at our first official winery. On any given day, that seems like a full day, but we weren't done yet. The next stop was what Good Morning America declared as the best ice cream in America at a place called Moomers. That's a tall tail and I'm not disagreeing with the claim, but I need to do much more "testing" before I'll agree with that claim, but I have to admit, it's pretty damn good.

I don't even remember what we did on Sunday, but we did visit Moomers again. Hmmm, it's growing on me. Oh yeah, we did some geocaching. It just so happened that there was an underwater cache not to far from Cori's place, so we all suited up and did that. I really should admit something here, but I'm not! Cori was right and we'll just leave it at that.

We had a blast and I look forward to crashing at Cori's place unannounced for the ice cream again!