We are not often a family that takes a lot of vacations or travels far and wide around the country. We prefer shorter trips, here and there, with just enough planning to make things easy. Finding the time to do these things, with a busy family of six, can be tricky so we opted to do a quick trip up to Boyne Mountain over Spring Break.
The kids love an opportunity to stay in a hotel -- this was actually a 'resort' -- and with most of snow melted around here already, it was fun to travel north to enjoy it for a bit longer.
We checked in and headed to up to our 2-story room where the kids all snuggled up on the couch for a quick picture.
Jack approved of the extra-large (and so plush!) bathrobes.
Bright and sunny with some (man-made) snow still on the ground.
Such beautiful scenery in the background.
This was the first time that any of the kids ever rode in a chair-lift and I have to admit, this one was bigger than any that I was on either. It was shaky and cold but we all survived and then the kids stopped to pose at the top of the hill afterwards.
One of the things that Steve really wanted to do was to go across the Sky Bridge. This is the longest timber-towered suspension bridge in the world! This took some more courage on our part (or at least, for many of us), but the girls loved stopping periodically to take pictures along the way.
I chuckled when I saw this picture because they are not really scared; rather, I made them turn around and face directly into the sun. Ha!
Once we made it to the other side, we stopped for a bit to warm up with the bonfire that was onsite.
Some fun memories were definitely made that day!
We stayed two nights at the resort and enjoyed the indoor water park, as well. You could tell that it was beginning the 'off season' there as it was definitely not as busy as it could be during the cold winter months.
After we packed up, we decided to stop in Gaylord to visit Call of the Wild, a small museum with all kinds of taxidermy animals native to Michigan.
There was a fun scavenger hunt set up for the different age ranges of children so it made it exciting for all four of the kids to read the clues, find the exhibit and then check it off their list.
At the end, we stopped in the gift shop and everyone was able to pick out a souvenir of their choice to take home.
One of Jimmy's favorite displays.
All in all, we were gone just three days but we managed to pack in quite a few events ... and we made lots of memories together. The car ride was not too long either. Ha!
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