Manistee with the Eckers!

To start off my week of freedom from the blessed children I headed up to Michigan to visit my Marit:-) Manistee is about a five hour drive but it went by pretty quickly. Marit took advantage of her cake decorating tools and made me a beautiful (and delicious!) birthday cake:-) It was so much fun to celebrate with them!

We had a pretty low key visit (just the way we like it). Benj and Marit showed me around Manistee a little on Sunday and then Marit and I spent Monday together in Traverse City (about an hour north). Which is where the oversized yellow brontosaurus comes in...
This thing is at a camping area on the way to Traverse City. Yeah...very weird. The name of the campground didn't even have anything to do with dinosaurs! Marit said that they eyes even glow red at night...creepy!

Traverse City was very much like downtown Keene, NH. It was nice to just check out the shops and spend some time in a bookstore. We found a restaurant called Caio Bella which was really good! Marit was livin' it up...wine AND lobster tails!
Monday night we did a little egg dying before dinner and a movie with Benj:-)

Yes...we did a little St. Patrick's Day celebrating:-)