The timing didn’t work for us to go up north for our one year anniversary in January like we wanted so we decided to take a trip to Mackinaw during the summer instead as our “anniversary” trip. It was such a nice getaway. There’s nothing like Michigan in the summer time. We are truly blessed with such great natural beauty. I, myself, take it for granted.
We spent our first day on Mackinac Island. It was super foggy during the morning and cleared up to be a beautiful 70 degree day by the time we left.
For the first time, I didn’t try to cram seeing and doing every little thing there into our visit. Interestingly enough though I saw the entire island … at least the perimeter of it. I had never ridden the 8.2 mile bike ride around the island before so Jonathan and I embarked on checking that off the list. I actually saw some things I never had before.
Of course, we had to hike up to arch rock and check out the view.
Following our trip to Mackinac Island we headed up to St. Ignace where we stopped to grab coffee at Java Joe’s and hiked up to Castle Rock – or as Jon has always referred to it as “the really big rock with the giant Paul Bunyan and blue ox”. I never knew what he was talking about before now.
Jon volunteered to experience the weirdness of the Mystery Spot as he put himself in a bunch of odd and near impossible positions. We spent the day enjoying the natural “pure” Michigan beauty.
Mackinaw treated us well with delicious food – one of my favorites being the Rosemary, Pesto Salmon at Nonna Lisa’s Italian Restaurant and a relaxing view on the water where we could see the bridge and city line.
