Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Mackinac Island- Carriage Ride

The boat docked right off the main drag.  We got there so early, some of the stores weren't even open yet.  It was nice a quiet, nothing like the bike chaos it was later in the day.  We went on a Tuesday, hoping to beat long weekend traffic and get a day that wasn't so busy.  I can't imagine what it's like on a weekend in July.  It got crowded without being annoyingly so.



Fort Mackinac- all those yellow umbrellas?  That's where we had lunch


Clubhouse for the course.  Looked like a pretty small course, but green fees were only $120, really, I thought they'd be a lot more!


We got tickets to the butterfly house, something that without a two year old, would probably not interest me, but it's so fun to see little ones in awe of butterflies.  Grandma took charge of Charlie so I could take tons of pictures of all the kids. 













These gorgeous ones of the butterflies are obviously Bridgette taking them, she's much better at these kind of shots than I am.





The carriage ride took us by Arch Rock- probably the most famous rock formation on the island.  They say it will probably gone in the next 20 years due to erosion, so I'm glad we got to see it




You can see the road down there that goes around the entire island.  Bikes and horses only

Charlie starting to go down, he was getting a little fussy and tired at this point.  He was starting to sleep on grandma in the carriage






Our super adorable, but super cheesy carriage driver- the teenage girls were swooning...

Stone Church


This was where the soldiers stationed at the fort practiced their shooting.  That is the fort down the hill.  Because supplies were so hard to get to the island, they had to go find all their bullets at the end of practice and 'get the lead out' so they could reuse them.  Could you imagine?



Charlie!  No touch!  Oh, but it's so cute.....

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