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Hot Wheel Convention in Walmart Parking Lot 2025
We could not understand why the Walmart parking lot was packed at 7am, but it turned out their was a hot wheel convention going on. Plenty of booths and many life size cars were on display. Mary took advantage of this event and met the cheeto cheetah.
Frankenmuth 2025
This was our first visit to Frankenmuth this year and we spent most of the time in the Frankenmuth mall. We did our usual stop at the cupcake store (it won cupcake wars on television years ago), the book store, the arcade, and the souvenir shops. Perhaps our best stop was at the barbecue shop where you could sample as many barbecue sauces as you liked. We each bought a favorite and had a great time sampling everything.
After leaving Frankenmuth antique stores we headed to Past Tense in Lapeer Michigan where we picked up some Spring items for the yard.
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Mackinaw City 2025
The weather was really perfect for Mackinaw this year, and it was still early enough in the season that it wasn’t too crowded at all. Once again we stayed at the Halloween Express (great breakfast by the way and a balcony to boot). For dinner we had pizza which has become our tradition here. Lots of shopping at the dozens of souvenir shops and plenty of t-shirts will be coming back with us. The bridge is spectacular and we spent time at the rock beach wading in the water. Eventually the bugs came out but not before we picked up a souvenir rock from the beach for Moms Garden. Just a beautiful time for the family.
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St Ignace Deer Ranch 2025
We could not check into our hotel room until 3pm so we headed across the bridge into St Ignace to do some souvenir hunting and to visit some of our favorite places. The first stop was the Deer Ranch where we went and saw the new deers. This year they had 3 fawns and they were very cute, although they were sleeping while we were there. James once again fed the deers and had a great time doing so. The deers looked very good and very healthy and happy.
Sea Shell City 2025
Sea Shell City is usually a stop on the way home from Macinaw but this year we decided to stop on the way up. Sea Shell City is about 15 miles South of the Mackinaw bridge. James had to buy another t shirt as the one he got last year as a gift was a size big, so he bought one a size smaller. Mom enjoyed shopping and buying some rock candy, and Dad was fascinated by a sharks head hanging on the wall and thought it would look great on the bathroom wall for Halloween. Unfortunately the sharks head was not for sale but other than that it was a great time at Sea Shell City.
Mothers Day 2025
Mothers day was perfect and began with a perfect day weather wise!
It began with Mom opening gifts in the morning. After the gifts, we packed up and went out to Mom’s favorite China Buffet and everyone enjoyed a super meal. After eating we took Mom out shopping.
We came back home in time to watch the Sunday race, then went back out for Ice Cream at the Dairy Queen (which was James’ treat). All in all a great day and a great time was had by all.
James Bachelor Degree 2025
The final of three graduations took place at the Wayne State Hall. James had to get there an hour early so we dropped him off then did some exploring on our own before entering into the hall. One of these was walking over the bridge on the Lodge freeway and snapping off a couple pictures of the traffic.
This was by far the largest of the 3 graduations and was a little more formal as they had a small orchestra or band and they did a great version of the National Anthem as well.
After the graduation we headed out to Bubba’s for dinner, then came home for more of the graduation cake and James got the remainder of his graduation gifts. A whirlwind experience for the whole family.
French Language Graduation 2025
After a beautiful graduation ceremony and graduation cake and gifts, James got up the next day and went right back to work on his second graduation. This was to certify that he is fluent in a second language (last year we sent him to France with this day in mind). This ceremony was at the Wayne State Hall which is located by the soccer/football field. This was a real nice ceremony and was a real pleasure to attend. Everything was broadcasted on the large screen TV so you could say there was not a bad seat in the house. Once this graduation ended, we only had about 2 hours till the next one.
