Home again, home again

We're back :) We had a great vacation in Charlevoix and Mackinaw Island last week. We left for our trip Monday at about 10:45pm. Failing in our attempt to successfully transfer our sleeping kids to the car they stayed up the entire 4 1/2 hours there. The first 3 1/2 hour they were silent, probably trying to figure out what the heck we were doing with them-- second hour wasn't so good. Lets just say they decided to try making the popping noise (that Donkey in "shrek II" makes on his carriage ride) for about an hour-- cute and funny at first-- extremely irritating after 5 mins. The way home was also a bit of a nightmare, but what can you do.

We enjoyed watching the boats from our condo, walking through town and on the harbor, going to the beach once (Matt HATES sand), and swimming in the pool at Charlevoix. We spent two days at Mackinaw biking around the island (wow, were we sore) and walking through town and seeing the fort. Overall, a very nice and low key trip. Just what we needed.

The first week after a vacation is often quite hard-- so I'm trying to fit in some more fun activities for me and the kids (we'll probably go swimming w/ my grandma on Wednesday- zoo "wild nights" wed night and some playdates for the week).