Great day today as James receives two important documents, a scholarship for $4,000 and his Bachelors Degree Diploma. Congrats James, we are so proud of you.

What a fun day this was for Dad with all sorts of great gifts (including Fathers Day Dinner of course). Thanks to Mom and James for coordinating the events and making this such a special moment.

Most of the time our kitties eat and sleep, however when one of them is looking intently outside the window, there is usually something going on. In this case, our kitty Hoot was staring intently through the window looking into our backyard. We did not notice anything but Hoot continued the intent staring. We took out our camera to zoom in and see what was going on, the lo and behold, there was a cute little bunny rabbit hiding by one of our bushes in the backyard.

I guess Hoot was making sure that the bunny rabbit did not enter her “domain”.

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.

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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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