A Visit To Our Son and His Wife

We have needed a get away, even if only for a day or so.  A plan to go visit our son Dustin and his wife Samantha was in order.  


They live up in Muskegon Michigan, so we planned to go away for the weekend.  Well for 2 weeks I have been checking out the camp grounds in the area, and the state parks said no early reserves-just first come first serve.  So that would mean maybe getting a camp site that would not be our first choice.  Dustin said we could stay with them, and that is what we ended up doing. Scott  has monday off too, so we could have extend the stay if we wanted....but since we did not camp, we decided not to stay that long.  

Well the plan at first was to camp, and we have not camped for a long time, so thought it would be fun. It has been years actually! Scott was to be off work on Friday, we would have left on friday morning, to find a good site.  Plans changed- he had to work all day (which is better financially) but that would mean that we would not get out of the house until about 4 pm or later.  That would mean we would not get a good camp site.


I was busy all day doing doing laundry, cleaning the house and getting ready.  Scott came home after work, and while working on chores, found one of our female goats had died this after noon.  She was our best momma goat .  He had to get her buried, could not wait until we returned in this hot humidity of over 90 degrees.


So after that, and going to town to the bank (our bank stays open late) and the pharmacy for me (diabetic supplies) we were on the road going north!  We thought maybe we would find a campsite, and I thought I would call the one camp ground just in case they would hold one -even though they said they do not, I thought I could at least ask.  I found out that their web page is wrong, they do take reservations!  But they are full now, as are other camp grounds in the area (there is a motorcycle rally thing this weekend in Muskegon) so no camping.

But that would mean we would get to stay with our son in his apartment, so more time with him and his wife!
We arrived that evening, and spent some time visiting, had a late supper and then went to sleep.  They gave up their bed for us, (very nice!) and took the blow up mattress we had brought along -placed on the floor in the living room.  Here are some photos of Dustin getting that ready. 

They had Egyptian cotton sheets on the bed-Wow!   I need to get some of those!  They are great!  Very comfortable and soft!


Saturday morning we had a big breakfast of eggs, potato's with onions, and roast beef then went to the store for a few supplies for our picnic lunch on the beach.  

The beach was not too crowded, but crowded enough that the parking lot was filling up.  Walking in the sand was a bit tough for my knee, but worth it! 

 Swimming in Lake Michigan was great!  Very refreshing!  

I have not went to lake michigan for about 15 years or more...back when the kids were all at home!  It was better than the ocean, (no salt water!) and the sun was so warm! 

 We had a lunch of chicken salad, chips, pickles, and water...cool water! Samantha covered Dustin with sand, we found his face later!

Scotts back did get a bit red!

We had fun, here are some more photos of Dustin and Samantha -enjoy!

A fun day!