We are home from vacation and I must admit it was quite nice to sleep in my own bed last night. I’ll be posting our trip in parts, since we did quite a bit!
We hit the road last Saturday for Mackinaw City. From our house it was about a five or six hour drive. Ajax did wonderful, simply wonderful! We were a little concerned as car rides have not been his favorite lately, but honestly we couldn’t have asked for a more well behaved child. We stopped for lunch and then stopped at a rest area to stretch our legs. The rest area had a little nature hike up to a scenic overlook which was nice. Ajax was quite the adventure baby and refused to hold my hand up the trail.
We got into Mackinaw around 5-ish, checked into our hotel and then wandered into town for dinner. We found an excellent pizza joint and then did a little window shopping. Our first night at the hotel was a bit rough as Ajax woke at 2:30 am and then basically refused to go back to sleep. By 6 am Dave declared that the Indish family was up for the day and we got dressed and went to breakfast.
I guess we can’t really blame the kid for waking up, the hotel was horribly creepy. Now, I’m not saying it was the worst hotel in the world, just the worst I have ever stayed in. Dave agreed that it was also the worst he had ever stayed in too. I didn’t do a very good job researching hotels in the area and made a snap decision regarding our accommodations, this obviously was a mistake. I beat myself up for a while, but Dave assured me that this was how family memories are made and we would never forget the horrible, creepy, and downright scary hotel that I made my family sleep in.
At the rest stop-
This is the only pic of the hotel room I took, Ajax kept moving the Bible around to different drawers.