Yay! I'm finally caught up to date on my RV trip (punishment) blog. So todhe ay we went to Mackinaw Island. We took the ferry, along with like 300 other people who decided too, which was actually leaving at 11 (on the hour) not 11:30 like my mom had thought. We didn't have to walk though! We got a shuttle to take us there! We got on and it took off right away. But not before blowing it's horn and scaring the crap out of Mia. Ha Ha. It was about a 10 to 15 minute ride, and was very nice. We got to the dock and got off. What did you think we would do, stay on? We imediatley went to the carriage ride tours of the island. It was really fun. We saw the Grand Hotel, (BORING) we saw most of the island, and we went to a butterfly museum. Very pretty. I got some good pictures. Then we got back on another carriage and went through the national park. Whas really funny is that even if you pick a blade of grass you were fined 50 dollars. The state flower or rarer flowers like orchids were a 500 dollar fine. The driver told us about the time when a little girl picked some flowers and it was a 1500 dollar fine. The look on her mothers face, though, priceless. We continued on and then we saw some people riding on horses. Well you could tell right away from looking at this girl that she had no clue how to ride a horse. (Blonde, Flip Flops, short shorts, blonde... not to be stereotypical) (She probably would have gotten on backwards if they hadn't helped her up, I'm pretty sure!) Well she was leaning so far back in the saddle that she was almost laying down. Then her horse trots over to the grass away from the group of 3, and starts kneeling down on his front legs, (so he's on his knees) She would of tipped forward if she wasn't leaning back so far. Then he got up, and runs her into a bush, stays there for a couple minutes, then starts eating grass. It was so funny. Finally he prances back over to the group like nothing had happened. It was hilarious. We finished the tour and I went to Star Bucks and got a Mocha Coconut Frapachino, (I think I spelled that wrong) It was really good. Then we went, boarded the ferry again, and caught the shuttle bus to go back to the RV. I ended up reading. But it got boring so I took out my guitar and played for a long time, while mom went to walk bella and mia to the beach. My dad was outside whittling. lol. When my mom came back to walk Biscotti I went with her. But Biscotti wouldn't come so we went by ourselves, and I ended up finding a fossil. (we had already found a couple in the past days but this one had a few) When we returned I went to the little camp store for some fire starter and built the fire! Finally girl scouts has kinda payed off. We made s'mores, and I sat at the picnic table updating my blog, while fighting of misquitoes. They're annoying little buggers. I'm so funny ha ha.... Nevermind. But it's time to go to bed, well more or less I'll probably read until 12.
Night! Don't let the misquitoes bite!
Ali
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Day 5 of the not so good RV trip
How many of you like walking, and I know that you are thinking what a stupid question. We have to walk everywhere! Well I meant, because we don't have a car thats tow- able with us, we have to walk everywhere. Not that I mind because we didn't leave the camp ground much. Well one of the people at camp said that they had walked to Mackinaw city because it was only a mile down the road. So we got up, got ready, turned on the air conditioning for the dogs, we prayed that the dogs wouldn't bark all day.... they did, and headed off down the road. Lets just say that I hate gym class even more. We passed about 50, no lie, hotels, motels, and inns on the way before we got to the little shops. Well, they have a ton, seriously, of fudge shops. They are like the banks and pharmacy's that are on every street corner in Pittsburgh. But we did get some fudge and it was really good. We went around a little more, we didn't buy much. But I did get two t-shirts. One that says "Professional Marshmallow roaster" on the back, and another that says "Camping Ninja" on the back too. I know a little corny, but I have to brag, I make pretty killer s'mores.
Caio, Salut, and Toodles!
Ali
Caio, Salut, and Toodles!
Ali
Fourth Day! July 5, 2011 (just cause theres an exclamation point doesn't mean I'm happy)
Hmmm. I've never been good with introductions. Lets leave it with that.
So its day 4 of torture. Since we are at the camp until Saturday, we didn't have to drive. So I got to sleep in until lunch. My mom and I went down to the beach, I don't have a reason why, so don't ask. It was acctually really nice and hot outside. So I wasn't that cold. The water was pretty and a really comfortable. Until you got up to your shins. Then it got cold. I started looking around the beach where the water meets the sand, and there were a ton of tiny rocks that were really colorful! I took those to add to my collection, I even found sea glass. Only two pieces, but I think that thats still really cool. While my mom and I were enjoying the peace and quiet of being on the beach alone these crazy boys came in their swim trunks and jumped in the water so it was over their heads. Okay they didn't jump, they had to squat because the water is very shallow, even far out. They didn't even seem cold! My mom even asked one of them what the water temperature was. He said 56 degrees. I have finally realized that there are people in this world that are much crazier than me. I read like 6 more books and we went for a couple more walks on the beach. Thats really all. Bye!
So its day 4 of torture. Since we are at the camp until Saturday, we didn't have to drive. So I got to sleep in until lunch. My mom and I went down to the beach, I don't have a reason why, so don't ask. It was acctually really nice and hot outside. So I wasn't that cold. The water was pretty and a really comfortable. Until you got up to your shins. Then it got cold. I started looking around the beach where the water meets the sand, and there were a ton of tiny rocks that were really colorful! I took those to add to my collection, I even found sea glass. Only two pieces, but I think that thats still really cool. While my mom and I were enjoying the peace and quiet of being on the beach alone these crazy boys came in their swim trunks and jumped in the water so it was over their heads. Okay they didn't jump, they had to squat because the water is very shallow, even far out. They didn't even seem cold! My mom even asked one of them what the water temperature was. He said 56 degrees. I have finally realized that there are people in this world that are much crazier than me. I read like 6 more books and we went for a couple more walks on the beach. Thats really all. Bye!
Third Day, 3 days late (RV)
First I want to appologize for appologize being spelled wrong and for not updating my blog for 3 days! Now that that's settled.
Day 3: Really theres nothing to say. We got to the Tee Pee camp in Mackinaw City around 3? I can't remember. It's been to long.... wow don't I sound like my mother..... Any way we really just took a walk down to the small beach on lake Huron. Whats funny is that it looks like an ocean, but is so much more calmer. Another difference is that there are stones and rocks, instead of shells! It's so wierd, but we found some pretty cool ones! Since we got there on the Fourth of July, they had a HUGE firework show. I think in like 3 different places on the lake. But the main part was sent off from the bridge. I'm not sure what it's called, but it's like 5 miles long. We went the beach with 2 chairs, Only 2! Yes, I wanted to bring a beach towel, but my mom "forgot" and I had to sit on my jacket that I brought to keep me warm. We waited and waited on the beach with other people spread out watching the measly fireworks that came every five minutes. The misquitoes were eating us alive, metaphorically speaking. They would of had to of been pretty big to do that. It was ten o'clock and the fireworks still haden't started. I heard someone say that they must of been low on money because there weren't many fireworks. We finally had had enough with the misquitoes because I was literally spazzing out and swatting every time I saw something move. I guess I was embarrassing my parents..... again. I think I have a phobia, a serious one, of, can you guess, of bugs. It's so bad that sometimes if I see a couple bugs I'll feels them "crawling" on me. But they aren't. Any way, we gathered up our stuff and were heading back to the RV when the show started it was really amazing and really pretty, and it lasted very long. I got some pictures, but again I'm not sure, at all, how to load them onto this computer. The only unfortionate thing was that they didn't have a bonfire that night and I was really looking forward to having s'mores. So we made them over our stove. Unfortionatley I dropped mine in the dog food and it got hair all over it. I was so upset that I couldn't even make another one, and my mom kept offering to make me one. But I was in my mood and I felt like fate totally hated me... it seems like it always does. But don't feel bad for me I had it for breakfast. Healthy!
I hope you have forgiven me for being so busy, NOT, that I wasn't able to updated my blog!
Day 3: Really theres nothing to say. We got to the Tee Pee camp in Mackinaw City around 3? I can't remember. It's been to long.... wow don't I sound like my mother..... Any way we really just took a walk down to the small beach on lake Huron. Whats funny is that it looks like an ocean, but is so much more calmer. Another difference is that there are stones and rocks, instead of shells! It's so wierd, but we found some pretty cool ones! Since we got there on the Fourth of July, they had a HUGE firework show. I think in like 3 different places on the lake. But the main part was sent off from the bridge. I'm not sure what it's called, but it's like 5 miles long. We went the beach with 2 chairs, Only 2! Yes, I wanted to bring a beach towel, but my mom "forgot" and I had to sit on my jacket that I brought to keep me warm. We waited and waited on the beach with other people spread out watching the measly fireworks that came every five minutes. The misquitoes were eating us alive, metaphorically speaking. They would of had to of been pretty big to do that. It was ten o'clock and the fireworks still haden't started. I heard someone say that they must of been low on money because there weren't many fireworks. We finally had had enough with the misquitoes because I was literally spazzing out and swatting every time I saw something move. I guess I was embarrassing my parents..... again. I think I have a phobia, a serious one, of, can you guess, of bugs. It's so bad that sometimes if I see a couple bugs I'll feels them "crawling" on me. But they aren't. Any way, we gathered up our stuff and were heading back to the RV when the show started it was really amazing and really pretty, and it lasted very long. I got some pictures, but again I'm not sure, at all, how to load them onto this computer. The only unfortionate thing was that they didn't have a bonfire that night and I was really looking forward to having s'mores. So we made them over our stove. Unfortionatley I dropped mine in the dog food and it got hair all over it. I was so upset that I couldn't even make another one, and my mom kept offering to make me one. But I was in my mood and I felt like fate totally hated me... it seems like it always does. But don't feel bad for me I had it for breakfast. Healthy!
I hope you have forgiven me for being so busy, NOT, that I wasn't able to updated my blog!
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