We had a very nice today today. After a quick breakfast at Burger King we headed to Hartwick Pines for a walk in the woods. There was a nice paced trail through the forest, but I had a big disappointment. One thing I recalled from my earlier visit (waaaay too many years ago to admit) was a very big pine tree with a fence around it. Well, it turns out that tree lost it's top 35' due to a 1992 lightening strike and died in 1996. So The Monarch is no more. 8-(After leaving Hartwick Pines we then headed to Cross Village for lunch at a Polish restaurant called Legs Inn. There was no traffic at all as we approached Cross Village, but when we got there, the place was packed with motorcycles and bicycles! I'm not sure why the motorcycles were there, but the bicycles we due to the annual DALMAC bike rally. The place was packed but since we arrived at 1:30 most of the crowd was leaving so we only had a 25 minute wait for a table. We enjoyed a polish beer while sitting on a swing and overlooking Lake Michigan from a high cliff. Lunch was great! Mary had perogies while I had kielbasa and sauerkraut.
So we were finally on our way to Sault Ste Marie, arriving at 4:30. After some relaxing time, we headed downtown for a whitefish dinner. As we arrived we saw a large ship entering the Poe lock so we went out to watch it. After that we checked the schedule and saw another ship was arriving soon so we waited and got this great picture which I've titled "Walking the Boat". Like someone with that tiny line is going to have any affect on a ship of that size! After watching the ships pass through the lock we had a great dinner, got an ice cream chaser next door and walked around the downtown area.
So we had a great, relaxing day, are all settled in for the night, and are looking forward to tomorrow's Bridge Walk.
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