Labor Day Weekend

My Friend from Washington and her daughter came to visit! It was so fun! We went up to my dad's condo by Nub's Nob with Duke and Jared. We went to Mackinac Island which is so fun! Part of me would love to live in a place like that...so simple I feel. I wouldn't want to hang out by the "downtown" area that much...WAY too many people, but I would love to just ride my horse or bike everywhere. Duke and I are pulling for a house on the island! We just wandered around eating ice cream and fudge = magnificent! That night we watched the first MSU football game...OH YEAH! I am sooo excited that Football Season is back!!!

The next day we left the condo and headed to Glen Arbor and Sleeping Bear Dunes, but not without stopping at a few roadside places so Adriane (my friend) could by a Petoskey stone IN Petoskey!

Poor planning on my part, I did NOT realize how far it was from the condo to Sleeping Bear and then Sleeping Bear to Hudsonville....we had a 21 month old with us and man was she a trooper! She did great! She had a lot of stories to tell us and we ended up singing a made up song called "Happy" for the last 30 minutes of the trip, in which you just sing the word "Happy" in a different voice over and over...I was pretty good at it if I say so myself - Malibu (Adriane's Daughter, and I made it up).

Anyways we climbed Sleeping Bear Dunes only to get to the top and have a huge cloud come over and cover everything...so much for seeing "America's Most Beautiful Place". Oh well, we were there.

Sunday was much more relaxed and consisted of a pancake breakfast at dad's, hanging out on the boat, lounging around the house, a great dinner, and FARKLE - the version that Jared and I made up that is SOOOO fun!

Monday we again did nothing really, and it was FABULOUS!

Tuesday morning Adriane missed her flight, I felt awful! It was quite the debacle, but she ended up getting home at a decent time.

I love seeing friends that you haven't seen in a while, especially when you hang out and you feel like you still see them everyday, like you just slip right back into the old routine - awesome. I still can't believe Adriane and I randomly got put as roommates on Semester At Sea, because of that we (Jared and I) ended up moving out to Seattle and Jared and Adriane worked together. We have such similar tastes in just about everything but food and exercise. We both had stuffed Hippos which we brought on Semester At Sea, and we love hippos, we LOVE dogs, it is not uncommon for us to show up wearing very similar outfits. It's just crazy! I am so thankful for her friendship and I hope we always remain friends and don't lose touch cause we live so far away now.

I love good friends!