On Saturday we were all on our own, so we to Port Austin to the Farmers Market. It was pretty typical and we didn't find anything we couldn't live without! We then took a drive around town and stopped at a little public beach. Of course I had to go wade in Lake Huron! The water was really warm and clear. After dinner we went all sat outside and we started getting to know a few more people!
Sunday morning we toured the Point Aux Barques Lighthouse. It was a good climb to the top but because it is still in operation you can't go all the way to the top! In the afternoon all 50 of us were invited to one of our "hosts" home for dinner. This rally had 4 host couples. Joe and Ardis have 10 acres of which about half are landscaped beautifully! We had a great dinner, tons of food, sat with and met some more of the group! It was a fun evening.
On Monday morning we toured the Point Harbor Beach Lighthouse with Jerry and Hessie Smith, Louisiana chapter members. You have to take a boat out to it, about a mile. It is a much shorter lighthouse and bigger around with several floors of rooms. It was a hardship back when it was built because the keeper had to row out to it and also row over to a buoy which he had to keep lit. In the lighthouse they used an interesting pulley system to keep it going! One of the volunteers had been tricked as a kid into shining the brass rail, got paid to do it while 20 years Coast Guard and now for free again as a volunteer! We decided to have lunch at the Port Hope Hotel, home of the famous Leroy Burger. We had singles which weren't too big but the double was one huge patty! They were good and we didnt have to think about dinner!
Tuesday was a pancake breakfast with the group. After eating we went back up to Port Austin to the hardware store and gift shop. Dinner was at a restaurant with the whole group. The restaurant had not had such a large group before so it was interesting, but got to know a few more Michigan people!
Wednesday morning was egg taco breakfast. For lunch all the ladies toured an Octagon barn and the 1920's Purdy House. They are also in the process of making a village! We had tea in the house and everything was delightful. Instead of the normal tea sandwiches they used a banana split dish with yellow squash for bananas, scoops of crab, macaroni and chicken salads for ice cream topped with cherry tomatoes! We had strawberry soup and Swedish cream with raspberries for dessert! One lady showed the aprons her grandmother made and a couple of ladies did some skits! It was great fun!
Today we had to go to a laundromat. We need a sewer line to do from our coach. Most of our campgrounds will not have those so thought we should do that. We tried to visit a museum in Harbor Beach but it was closed so we went to lunch!
Tomorrow we will drive up to Sault (pronounced soo) Saint Marie to begin the rolling rally!
Hoping to have better Internet soon..."Ain't Life Grand!"
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