A Day Away

Last year my sister Terri and I planned a day and went to Ludington for a fun day.  We decided we wanted to do something again this year and spent a fun day on Friday.  We tried to have our sister Cheri go too, but they've been short staffed at work and she couldn't get the day off.

This year we decided to go to St Joseph, another lakeside town which is about 75 minutes south of us.
It was windy and cold, but the sun was shining!
Our first stop upon arriving was to go to the Lighthouse.

Winter is hard on a beach area.  The sand blows and drifts like snow. These steps weren't easy to climb!

When we made it up them, we were treated to this pretty view with the lighthouse in the distance.

It was really windy and the waves were beating the shore. The tracks in the sand were there from equipment that was plowing the sand from the pier and parking lot, back to the beach.

You can see all the sand that's left on this section they have done.

Here's a shot of the equipment scraping up the sand at the other end of the pier.

The waves were pretty big, and were washing up on the pier.

Here's Terri!

And me.   The wind was messing my hair.  We stood on this side to do pictures because the waves were coming from the other side.  However, right after these pictures were taken, a huge wave came from the other side and soaked up.  We were wet to our knees and had to walk around in wet shoes...

We went into town and found a nice sandwich shop and had lunch.

After lunch we walked around this cute town and did some shopping.  I love the cobblestone streets. There were so many nice little shops to check out.

After we tired ourselves out, we drove along the road that borders Lake Michigan and enjoyed the scenery.  We had one more look at the lighthouse from the road and then headed back home.
I dropped Terri off about 3:30 and then got home around 4.  It was a really nice day and we decided this needs to be a regular event.  Hopefully Cheri can come next year!