We left for the Porcupine Mountains late afternoon on Friday. Ryan printed (no GPS for these folks!) directions from Google Maps -- I've always used Mapquest. Needless to say, the directions were pretty much useless once we got to Michigan. With the little service we had available, I used my Blackberry to look up the directions on Mapquest. In the end, our 6 hour trip ended up taking nearly 7 hours.
Our pups got into a brawl within the first 45 minutes,
but quickly went back to loving each other.
We also saw a Blue Moon!
We made it to our camp at about 11:00 p.m., so I took this picture early the next morning.
Day 1 - We woke up to a beautiful blue sky morning. Because we arrived at our campsite so late, we never checked in, so that was our first line of business. Then we took a trip to the visitors center to see what options we had for fun! We drove to 'town' to fill up on gas, and get more ice for our coolers. To our surprise, they were holding a Labor Day Festival. The Festival was basically a sidewalk sale down Main Street. Nothing really cool, but Ryan got suckered into buying raffle tickets from the Humane Society! We never did figure out what the raffle was for ...
Our next stop was Lake of the Clouds lookout point. It was so beautiful!!
One our way back to camp, we stopped at the beach on Lake Superior. The water was so clear, and so pretty. It was also freezing cold :)
Beautiful sunset!
Day 2: We took a 7 mile hike to Summit Peak. We took the pups with us: Dora made it 6 miles,
Gipsi had to be carried more than half of the hike. Her little puppy padsies couldn't handle the rough terrain.
We saw some other critters along our hike too!
Home: We left early this morning because the weather was kind of yucky. It stormed all night long! Our girls were tired out from a camping weekend ... and quite frankly I was really looking forward to taking a shower!
Can you spot the chihuahua?
See her now?
A very tired Dora ...
On the way home, we stopped in Antigo at a Mexican restaurant for lunch. Unfortunately for Ryan, the rest of the way home, I was singing La Cucaracha. Gotta love roadtrips!!
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