Thursday, August 18, 2011

Torch Lake, Traverse City and Sleeping Bear Dunes

Who needs sunshine when you have good friends, well behaved children, wine, the most beautiful lake, magazines, local brews, and friends who can talk fashion for hours. Another fun and memorable Torch Lake weekend. Eloise loved running around with the boys and being a very independent almost 4 year old.

Eloise driving the boat

nautical boys

s'mores!

all 3 kids won a stuffed animal from the claw machine (mostly thanks to andrew).
can you even believe it? if only i'd gotten a video of the mommies jumping and cheering.


On Sunday we left Torch and lunched/strolled Traverse City then continued our tour of Northern Michigan by exploring Sleeping Bear Dunes. So majestic and beautiful. George lost a croc at the top of one dune, or so we realized when we got all the way to the bottom. Daddy to the rescue!

on our way up

a gorgeous view of Glen Lake



our lake michigan in the background

way at the top with the rolling dunes stretching to the lake

rolling in the deep

now run!



To round out our Michigan travels we played with cousins (although only for too short of a sec), we Woodland malled, Blimpied on the boat and swam in Reed's Lake. Thank you Nonna and GW for babysitting our Maizer for us. She had a great time and didn't even run away...success!


Reed's Lake

3 comments:

Molly said...

I want to go to there! Love the snaps of Elle rolling and running...

Laura Friendly said...

Sleeping Bear is so beautiful! Any run-ins with Mario Batali on your MI adventure?

Nana Staple said...

It is the most beautiful place in America, according to Good Morning, America.