This morning we headed out to a beach very close to the house and did some rock collecting. Mimi really shined in her ability to find cool rocks! Leiden found a Petoskey stone, and we all found a bunch we really liked. We are going to start a Michigan rock jar at home, and I'm going to figure out how to seal them all so they always look wet.
The lake is large enough to have tides like the ocean, if less extreme. So higher up on the shore there was flat sand where the waves had smoothed it. It had dried super smooth, and trapped little pockets of air, so when you stepped on the seemingly solid sand surface, the air bubbles below would pop, forming little craters near your feet. It was super cool to watch, and once we figured it out, we had all the girls walking slowly and deliberately to see the little craters appear.
We went into town for shopping and lunch before Grandma and Grandpa G had to head home. We ate at Dinghy's, and after they left, we headed to a chilly afternoon at the beach.
Mimi had her giant unicorn floatie out in the bay, and fell off. The wind was pretty strong, and it began to blow the floatie faster than she could swim to get to it, so she yelled for help as it sort of bounced across the bay. It was about in the middle, and Jon was trying to swim out to it, and a woman on a paddle board had gone past it, when the woman's friend on the pier yelled, at the top of her lungs, "SAVE THE UNICORN!!!" The paddle boarder heard her pleas and went back to rescue it for Mimi. I actually missed all of this, and Jon recounted it later. Hilarious, and I'm so sad I missed it!! Mac enjoyed playing mermaid while Leiden and Mimi enjoyed designing her tail.
It was pretty cold, so we didn't last long. Which meant we actually got back
to the house for a decent bedtime! When we got back to the house, Grandma and Grandpa G had left us a little rock love note before they left. We will see them again on Thursday in Detroit. This portion of our trip is almost over!
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