JK Transition: camping

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Thursday, July 23, 2009

i'll take 90lbs to go please

warren dunes state park

playing around in the water

taking a swim in the water (that is Kristel)

A picnic super on the beach reminds me our honeymoon in Mexico

Loving the sun and sand!

sunset on the beach is delightful

The campground

Our camping area

St Joseph river, view from our campsite

We went to pick up the blueberries Monday morning. All the blueberries fit into the car. We were a bit nervous about that as we had all our camping gear in the car.

90 lbs of blueberries. Tasty.

I loved the SW part of Michigan great fresh fruit, great nature things to do (beach, camping, hiking, etc), loves of winery, interesting and fun restaurants. John and I will defiantly need to make a trip back again soon.

Blueberry note: I just have just a few fresh berries left as I have frozen the rest of the 20 lbs we got for ourselves. I can't wait to enjoy them all winter long. Yummy!!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

learning about Michigan

We stayed in Berrien Springs, MI at Shamrock Park campground. I would highly recommend the campground as its clean, well taken care of, and has nice bathrooms.
In town they have a university- Andrew's University.

This is what a field of blueberries look like! Wow!

Sunday we took a trip to the blueberry 'place' to skope it out and place our order for 90 lbs of blueberries!

On the way back to our campground. We went to St Julian Winery in Paw Paw, MI

At the winery they offer tours and tastings. After we tasted some very nice wine we got to see the operation and learn a lot about grapes and wine making. A lot of fun!

The wine 'curing' in the barrels

checking out the wine

this is where the grape juice is stored before its made into wine

Another stop on the way back to get groceries turned out to be a wonderful surprise for me. We wanted to get ice, cheese, and turkey (this would be for john not for me). We looked and looked all over the store for turkey with non to be found. It turns out this is an all VEGETARIAN grocery store. Yup no meat at all and its the size of a normal sized hy-vee. I was in heaven looking at all the veggie products. How cool is that!

As we were camping on the St. Joseph river we had some geese that likes to hang out at our camp ground.

More to come stay tuned...

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Mission: Blueberry

On July 11th John and I set off to Michigan for a camping trip. This would not be any ordinary trip as it was a mission... (flash back to Decorah camping trip) Janet and I where discussing blueberries and how she wasn't going to able to get anyone to go this year. I said to John we've never been to Michigan. Do you want to drive to Michigan to get blueberries? Yes was the anwser so we started planning our trip... (back to now time). So the blogs today and to follow we'll share our trip to get blueberries and the wonders we discovered in Michigan.

Leaveing our house Saturday morning we had an easy drive as we got to Illinois.

Chicago traffic was not that bad and we were in Indiana!

Getting close to blueberries I could smell them (ok not really!)

After setting up our tent and orienting ourselves with the area we drove down to see Lake Michigan.

Me and large bodies of water, it was ment to be!

Loving our trip so far!

Saturday night we had gotten a small amount of blueberries so john made blueberry pancakes. Oh my were they tasty!

Blueberries blueberries oh how I love you!
More to come tommorrow...stay tuned!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Sunset on lake Michigan

Sorry I've been so MIA the last week. I've been very stressed and busy (any comments of encouragement welcome!). I'll leave you with something new today as I hope to blog about this last weekends trip in the next few days. Also coming up: jazz fest video/photos, fireworks pics (thanks to Lynne for our Red White and blue wine!), and our garden updates. Stay tuned!

We went to Michigan this weekend here is a video of sunset on lake Michigan.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Echo Valley Camping trip

This weekend we went on a camping trip with John's friends from CCA high school. We camped from Friday Night-Sunday morning. We where camped at Echo valley which is just outside of West Union. It was a fun trip down memory lane for Kristel as this is where my grandma use to live.
We had a fun time meeting new people (this was mostly Kristel), fishing, girl talken on the river rocks, telling stories, singing Disney show tunes, going to the barrel and relaxing. Here are some pictures from our trip: