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Summer Vacation: Day 9

Michelle had discovered that the Lapidary supplier that she uses was located in Norway, Michigan.  This is one of the towns we had been to on Tuesday.  Our plan would be to go to Norway and visit Kingsley North.  

We took our time Saturday morning and got ready for our trip north.  It is around an hour drive from Escanaba.  We located Kingsley North to find that they closed at 12:00pm.  We should have done a little more research.

Next stop was Fumee Lake Natural Area.  We found this location and discovered that there was no fishing in the lake.  That would not work for Brendan so I called off my ride on the trails there.

We located a fishing dock and did some fishing.  We spent over an hour fishing the lake.  Brendan caught a small bass.  I think there was to much boat traffic?

We decided to pack it in and stopped at Dairy Queen for some ice cream.  Our next stop would be the Iron Mine so they could look at some of the rocks that Brendan and Michelle had collected.  They were very impressed.

We made it back to the house and decided to start the grill for dinner.  After dinner Michelle and I took a walk in the park as the sun set.

I was hoping to get the sunset.  It was a little to late.

We made our way back to the house and enjoyed a quiet evening.



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