Week 3

U.P. Trip 

My dad's friend has a cabin in the U.P. so I packed up Caiden and Maddy's school and we brought it with us and worked on school while we toured some amazing sites.

Tuesday stop 1-   Our first stop was the Mt.Pleasant Discovery Museum. My kids loved it!  We played there for almost 2 hours.

 

 

Tuesday stop 2 We met my parents at a McDonald's in Clair.  Caiden also got all his school work in the car today.

Tuesday stop 3 We stopped at the Deer Ranch in St. Ignace.  The kids loved feeding the deer and both kids got attached to a specific deer. 

Tuesday stop 4-  We ate dinner on the deck and enjoyed the view of the lake.  And within a few more hours we arrived at the Cabin.

Wednesday morning we went on a glass bottom boat tour and saw 3 ship wrecked vessels in Lake Superior.  Beautiful views of pictured rocks along the way.

 

 

This is what made this trip a learning on location trip and not a vacation.  Math in a hammock.

We take our school with us.

Wednesday afternoon we went to sandy point beach to play in Lake Superior.

Excited to start the day.

Thursday we visited Munising Falls,

 

Minors Castle,

and Minors beach

Reading with grandma.

Tree identification with grandpa.

Great way to end the day.

Friday we went to Wagner falls.  This water fall was named after a women pioneer who made a homestead in the harsh U.P. in 18 months instead of the 5 years it usually takes.  Amazing woman.  We told Maddy all about this strong women.

 

The kids working on school work while Westin napped.

After Wagner falls we hiked the 4 miles round trip to Rock River Canyon.  The kids loved it!

Fishing off the Cabin's dock.

 

Saturday we headed home but made made a few stops.  Our fist stop was the zoo near the bridge. Great little place.  Interactive and large enough to feel like a real zoo.  We also stopped at fort Mackinac.

There were peacocks that roamed the zoo that you could feed as well as a petting zoo.

The tiger was pretty active

Feeding the bear his apple.

Cannon's are always cool.

British soldiers firing in the fort. 

The kids liked all the native american display.

French fur trader.

Iconic bridge picture with the kids.

The kids had a very fun and full week of learning and exploring in the U.P. Wore them right out!