Winter beach days.........................

So on Friday we awoke to a beautiful sunny day, cold but bright. I wanted to go for a drive. Gerry said wait till tomorrow when we have Tristen, it's supposed to be nice. I said I had heard it was going to rain. No he says it will be sunny in the afternoon. So I resigned myself. So Saturday dawns dull, cold and gloomy. The sun will come out he says. He went to pick up Tristen about 9.30am and we decided to go for an afternoon drive anyway,even though it was not looking any better.
We headed for Suttons Bay and on to Leland.

We pulled over a couple of times to see what the ice looked like along the Bay, I liked that picture of the lonely picnic tables. After getting through Leland we headed to Lake Leelanau and stopped again at the coffee shop. Gerry sure took to that place. The boys came in with me to help carry out hot choc for them with whipped cream and chocolate drizzle and for Gerry and me the white chocolate mocha.........Also got us cookies. Peanut butter for us and choc chip for the boys. They were so big I had to break them in half. Half was the size of two regular cookies. See the peanut butter one

I got scones as well for the evening but had to wait till today to eat those. The roads were pretty clear out that way but got more snow covered as we made our way out. In Leland we stopped at Fishtown.
It was pretty full of snow, and everything closed. I guess at night they have it lit up, that would be pretty to see.



The boys wanted to get out on the ice. We stopped at the beach.

They didn't want to leave but I said we have other beaches to visit so off we went

Next stop Glen Haven it was so hazy that we could not see the Dunes. Several people went in on snow shoes or ski's but we just had our boots







Again they didn't want to leave. We had another beach to visit yet so again we started off towards Empire.
We didn't see the large herd of deer that we had seen last time but these two were snacking in the little stream

To the beach we go. This one was quite different. It was frozen way out with a very large bank of ice accumulated. It was still misty and it looked like we were at the Antarctic.


Look at the patterns on this rock



You could hardly see the Bluffs

Go play in the playground I said haha

on the way home the visibility was worse and it was icy too. Look at the Hop farm


We headed to the Hayloft. It has usually been empty when we get there around 4 to 4.30 but it is now snowmobile time and they were filling up the place. Mostly gathered around the bar put had their gear on tables to reserve the spaces. We ordered our Burritos and Tristen ordered a cheeseburger and fries and Popcorn chicken and fries for Cooper. They both had root beer. I let them take the computer in with them because I didn't have any cash for the game room. They liked that but had to put it away when the food arrived.


We could only eat half of our food although Cooper cleared his plate. We finished ours for supper tonight. Yum.
It was getting worse outside, it was supposed to rain.

We made it home safe and sound. Enjoyable day. Laura H was to pick up Tristen at 7.30 so he had plenty of time to play with Cooper. They had a good day and got along really well. Tristen is a bit bossy with Cooper but Cooper adores him. They usually get along well but Cooper won't take too much guff from Tristen. He is almost as tall and it more sturdy, so if he clobbers Tristen it hurts so the have found their level I guess.

I took some videos so I will try to get those loaded on here. So far I have not had any luck.