Last weekend we took a 4 day trip to Traverse City, MI. We were looking forward to a little getaway and some relaxation. It was only a 5 hour drive, but at some points seemed like a whole different world. It is really beautiful up there! We did a lot of sightseeing, went to some state parks, lighthouses and an art museum. We stayed at the Grand Traverse Resort but spent most of our time out exploring.
Just about everywhere you looked, there were trees everywhere!
This one windmill was powering an entire energy station!
We took a 7 mile drive through the Sleeping Bear Dunes state park. Our first stop along the way was this covered bridge.
Our second stop we saw this crystal blue lake!
Here in the distance you can see Lake Michigan.
A nice lady offered to take a picture of us together.
Den at the top of the dune overlook. It is hard to see how steep this drop off was. From the edge of this picture, the drop off went straight down about 1/4 mile. There were warning signs about being careful about hiking all the way down there. We saw some people hike down. We didn't see anyone make it back up though.
Me looking out over the lake.
pretty deck walkway going up the dunes
Here you can see how steep the drop off is down to the lake.
Pure Michigan :)
Later on we headed north up the peninsula between East Traverse Bay and West Traverse Bay. A lighthouse and a log cabin were up in this area.
The lighthouse wasn't tall and skinny like I had expected, just attached to this house.
At this location we were halfway between the North Pole and the Equator.
Ahhhh! This eagle is going to carry Dennis away!
On Sunday we went to The Dennos Museum. It is an art museum which is part of Northwestern Michigan College. In the interactive wing there were some cool exhibits. This exhibit was pretty cool. You walked into a dark room and as you moved around, your movements were replayed on screen in slow and fast motion in different colors, etc.
Me
Den
Den and Me
Looking at some of the Native American Art
In this exhibit you could touch the different colored pieces of wood and each piece made a distanct musical sound, chord or type of music. By figuring out the correlation in colors and shapes you could play a song that went together.
Here is a virtual digital harp. There are no actual strings but as you move your hands you can play music.
McDonalds art in the Chinese/ Japanese wing
This exhibit took up an entire room. It is called "Carbon."
On Sunday we drove all the way up to Northport, MI on the western side of the bay between the bay and Lake Michigan. Can you tell, it was really sunny outside!
This was a very small state park.
Anotherbeautiful view.
a saliboat off in the distance
A lighthouse in northport.
Just about everywhere you looked, there were trees everywhere!
This one windmill was powering an entire energy station!
We took a 7 mile drive through the Sleeping Bear Dunes state park. Our first stop along the way was this covered bridge.
Our second stop we saw this crystal blue lake!
Here in the distance you can see Lake Michigan.
A nice lady offered to take a picture of us together.
Den at the top of the dune overlook. It is hard to see how steep this drop off was. From the edge of this picture, the drop off went straight down about 1/4 mile. There were warning signs about being careful about hiking all the way down there. We saw some people hike down. We didn't see anyone make it back up though.
Me looking out over the lake.
pretty deck walkway going up the dunes
Here you can see how steep the drop off is down to the lake.
Pure Michigan :)
Later on we headed north up the peninsula between East Traverse Bay and West Traverse Bay. A lighthouse and a log cabin were up in this area.
The lighthouse wasn't tall and skinny like I had expected, just attached to this house.
At this location we were halfway between the North Pole and the Equator.
Ahhhh! This eagle is going to carry Dennis away!
On Sunday we went to The Dennos Museum. It is an art museum which is part of Northwestern Michigan College. In the interactive wing there were some cool exhibits. This exhibit was pretty cool. You walked into a dark room and as you moved around, your movements were replayed on screen in slow and fast motion in different colors, etc.
Me
Den
Den and Me
Looking at some of the Native American Art
In this exhibit you could touch the different colored pieces of wood and each piece made a distanct musical sound, chord or type of music. By figuring out the correlation in colors and shapes you could play a song that went together.
Here is a virtual digital harp. There are no actual strings but as you move your hands you can play music.
McDonalds art in the Chinese/ Japanese wing
This exhibit took up an entire room. It is called "Carbon."
On Sunday we drove all the way up to Northport, MI on the western side of the bay between the bay and Lake Michigan. Can you tell, it was really sunny outside!
This was a very small state park.
Anotherbeautiful view.
a saliboat off in the distance
A lighthouse in northport.
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