Saturday, July 7, 2012

U.P.

Jim, Jacob, and I made the trek from Texas to Michigan last weekend. Our drive was fairly uneventful, with the exception of the fire alarm going off at our hotel in Kentucky, and then having to halt our drive in Ohio for 20 minutes due to a severe thunderstorm. (And, by the way, why is it that during the fire alarm fiasco, the hotel hallway was filled with women checking things out, while all the men - Jim included - slept right through the piercing noise?) On Wednesday, we picked up Irma and continued north to the Upper Peninsula for our annual Calumet trip. Adam joined us in the U.P. and we have enjoyed getting together with our cousins every day. The boys have gone golfing twice, while Irma and I have spent entirely too much time tooling around the local cemetery trying to find the graves of some recently-deceased friends and relatives. Tomorrow we plan to visit our little cabin on Lake Superior and dip our toes into the probably-freezing-cold water. We'll then be heading back to southeast Michigan on Monday. Time to park the Grand Cherokee for a while and give it a break from the 200-250 miles per day that the poor thing has averaged since we bought it 19 days ago.

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