Figure I’d start this off with a little recap of our weekend. We ran up
\nto Tawas for a 5K and a little fun in the sun. After getting all our
\ncamping gear out and in the car, we were on our way… until we had to
\nturn around and get Susan’s socks for the race. It was getting late into the
\nevening, and we decided to hit up A&W for a little grub. They were serving
\noutdoors to the cars pulled up, but we went inside only to find out we
\ndidn’t really order with a server. Each table has a phone on it and once you
\nwere ready, you placed your order through the phone. That was pretty neat!
\nThe food was good, we got some burgers and a couple of huge root beer
\nfloats (at least I thought it was good, I didn’t throw, my onion rings on
\nthe ground \ud83d\ude09 ). Being well fed, we headed up north on a two-lane road,
\nwhich seemed to take a really long time. We managed to find the KoA
\nCamground even though Google maps told us to turn to the right, when it
\nwas actually to the left.<\/p>\n
The campground was really nice, the bathrooms were probably the nicest
\ncampground bathrooms I’d ever seen! We managed to get our tent set up
\nwithout too much trouble (seemed to take awhile to find just the “right”
\nspot to set it up and the grey poles are definitely shorter than the red
\nones \ud83d\ude42 ). After a long day at work, driving, camp site setting up, we
\nwere pretty tired, only problem was it was pretty warm and super humid
\n(not ideal sleep conditions the day before a race!) With my cellphone set
\nas an alarm clock we tried to sleep through that nasty humidity, I managed
\nonly a couple hours of sleep. When the phone\/alarm clock went off, we
\nstarted getting ready for the race by the bay. Although the campground had
\na pancake breakfast going on, we were already in Tawas, fueled and ready.
\nA work buddy of mine was checking in at the last minute as I picked up our
\nshirts and numbers. A quick warm up back to the car and race time was
\ngetting close.<\/p>\n
The only thing nice I can say about the weather was it didn’t rain, but
\nman was it horrible to race in. It was still very humid and trying to run
\n(walk) through it was not an easy task. Susan thought she did good in the
\nwalk, so we stayed for the awards ceremony (she finished 8th overall,
\nthree away from a prize…) My time was pretty bad, but at least I crossed
\nthe finish line still standing! After the awards were handed out, we went
\nover to the beach for a little kite flying. I somehow managed to get the
\nbig kite up this weekend! In the process I nearly lost my index finger
\n(ok, maybe just a little cut, but it still hurt!) A sudden wind change
\nbrought it back down nearly hitting the kids playing underneath the kites
\n(that’s right, a whole big beach to play on, go right where a kite could
\nhit you…) I pulled my little one out and it went up without much effort
\n(even after crashing into the water, whoops…) The kids weren’t moving
\nand by this time we were getting kind of hungry, so we retreated from the
\nbeach. We hit up a pizzeria for lunch.<\/p>\n
After lunch, we checked out the dog show that was happening in the
\nlittle park across the street (they were doing sprints and not the
\nobstacle course, so that got boring pretty quickly.) There was a kite shop
\ndown by the beach, we stepped in and hadn’t realized it was the tiniest
\nshop you’d ever been in. It was getting pretty close to nap-time, so we
\nwent back to the campsite for a little rest. Noticing a mini-golf course
\nalongside the road, we thought it’d be fun to try. We didn’t realize it
\nwas the #5 mini-golf course in the state rated by AAA (it wasn’t all that
\nimpressive, but it was pretty fun). Susan managed to get two hole-in-ones,
\nbut I somehow ended up a couple strokes ahead in the end (and almost a
\nhole-in-one on the last hole for a free game, this close > < ). Our
\nbellies were rumbling after that intense round of golf and we headed over
\nto a locally owned restaurant. The food was really good there and we had
\nsome entertainment on the streets.<\/p>\n
Hitting up the ice cream shoppe we listened to a band play a couple
\nsongs (…Susan didn’t even want to dance with me). It was getting dark
\nand the bands weren’t all that great, so we went back to the campsite to
\nsit around the camp fire (we actually weren’t tired enough to not have a
\ncamp fire this trip!) After demonstrating my boyscout skills, I had what
\nyou could call a fire that didn’t want to show its flames very much. I
\nthink the wood might have been damp, as there was a lot of smoke and not a
\nlot of flames. After going through nearly a bundle of wood, it was smore
\ntime! The smores were awesome and the temperature had cooled off to be
\nquite comfortable (well in a snug sleeping bag that is \ud83d\ude09 )
\nOn the way back home, I had wanted to get a sweatshirt, but the shops
\nwere closed… we did get to see some classic cars as a show was
\nhappening… (wonder if the streets are ever open). We did pretty good on
\npacking, only managed to forget some pillowcases (which K-Mart had some on
\nsale) and all and all it was a pretty awesome weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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