
And just like that, we are crossing the Mackinac Bridge back to the upper Mitt, or the lower peninsula. A day latter Yishai found a very interesting article about the designer and builder of said bridge, Lawrence Rubin. A Jewish man who lived his whole adult life in St. Ignaces. He belonged to the Jewish community in Petoskey, his wife is buried there. For some reason, he was never buried beside her. 15 years after his death the funeral home that had his remains was disbanding – so the Jewish community of Petoskey banded together and arrange for him to be buried beside his wife – which should have happened long ago. Tells you something about the Jewish community.

Petoskey is an adorable town, this used to be a movie theater.

Love how this coffee shop is decorated.


The synagogue in Petosky, we did see the one in Canadian Soo, but didn’t get pictures. This community is very small in the winter and swells in the summer when the snowbirds come back.

Then it was back to Traverse City.


A house there had this sign in the yard, along with a big rainbow flag. So I had to get a picture of my gay son and his not gay husband. Yoch can’t stand all the postering of the whole alphabet people. We got such a Hugh laugh out of this sign!

An old home becomes a flower shop.

Yarn in a cafe. I did find the quilt store, lovely, they were having their summer quilt run, 128 stores throughout the whole state of Michigan. I didn’t buy anything, although when I got home I went to my local LQS and bought fabric for my nieces baby. Just waiting for the pattern to arrive.


cool buildings in downtown Traverse, they simply don’t make them like this anymore.

The last day we went to a local playground.


Although the ride was only 5 minutes long, the kids got a boat ride.


And because they are too short, the Abas had to join them for the bumper cars.

The travel Gods got us on our way home. A Very late flight out to Chicago, which meant staying in the airport, because going to a hotel made no sense whatsoever. I was very lucky to snag a wheelchair, we loaded these two on it, and they slept there for a couple of hours. Then it turned out we had a 15 minute walk to our gate, this was a huge help.

That is that, another wonderful vacation in the books.
Leah