The last two weeks has been a wonderful and delightful experience for me. I've had a wonderful opportunity to see Michigan in a new way. I had the chance to go to Traverse City and Indian City the last two weels and I was thrilled to see the beauty of our state. Both places were just filled with beauty. In Traverse City I had the opportumity to see such lovely landscrapes of green trees, blue skies and lovely vineyards. I was in awe of the beauty of it all. My superviser (friend) and I drove around and visited two vineyards and tasted some delicious wine. We also visited a old store the kind I use to see when I was a child down south. We stopped and had fresh rootbeer soda. That was cool, I don't like root beer but I couldn't pass that up. The best part was discovering Mooners ice cream. We happend to stop on the side of the road to get vegatables (that was cool too.) and he suggested we try the best tasting ice cream in America. We really thought he was giving us a suckers job with that line. When we taste it wenwere sold so we spent the last day hunting down for the diary to purchase more. I bought a half quart home. I can continue to enjoy it.
On friday my friend, Johanne had invited me to come to visit her up in her cabin in Indiana City. We had arranged this before I went on my workcation. Her place first of all is just beautiful. I could live in this place I thought it was going to be some small little log cabin. I was so wrong. She took me to Mackinac Island. I haven't been there in over thrity years. That's if you could believe I'm old enough to say that. I had forgotten how beautiful it was. The water just took my breath away. The bridge wow so long. I was glad we took a boat over so that I could really see how long the bridge was. We walked around for a while then took a carriage ride. I'm glad we didn't go with the bike ride. The ride was just great. All I could think about were the Indiana that once lived on this land. The trees were long and big. Oh my it was such a wonderful site to see. We went inside of a small house with butterfilies. This is when I wanted to just plant my feet and sit down and stay forever. I loved every minute of being there. I nearly cried just watching those beautiful creatures fly.
I totally enjoyed the company of my friend as we walked around for a short time I was snapping pictures left to right hoping to capture the moment. I found what love really meant just by spending time here and in Traverse City because God is just awesome, man (smile) He really is. He really knows how to decorate.
What a wonderful workcation and vacation I had these last two weeks.
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