Cabin Fever Mini-Vacation

My sister decided it was time for her to fly the coop and so we headed out on a mini-vacation to the east coast of the state. Our destination was Oscoda, a tiny town where the Au Sable river meets Lake Huron. We drove along the coast, able to see giant blocks of ice on the shore and clear blue water further out. Our hotel was cute and had a view of both the Au Sable river and Lake Huron and was close to a restaurant that delivered yummy food!

We saw a giant mouse and a giant seagull. One was at a playground and the other was at a cheese outlet. (cheese outlet! what on earth?!)

Drove Owosso and saw the old casket company building which is now, ironically enough, a health care facility. The gas station also sold pickles and had a convertible on the inside with a giant bunny rabbit in the drivers seat. Yeah, I don’t know what that was about either.

Lake Superior is deep and cold, it’s got beds of sunken ships and shorelines that are remote and untouched. Lake Michigan is the playground, bright and blue and surrounded by sandy shores and dunes and beaches. Lake Huron gets a bum rap around here. There aren’t as many beaches and it’s not visited as a vacation spot nearly as much as the others but it does have one unique and amazing property. The sunrise. There is nothing as beautiful as the sunrise over water and Lake Huron shimmers like a jewel in the morning. It may not have the beaches of Lake Michigan or the enormity of Superior, but in my opinion Huron certainly holds it own. Just look at the colors in that sunrise!

Sending postcards, a now familiar sight on all my travels and a billboard on the highway that properly expresses my emotions at the end of this trip! One last look at the lake and I’m pretty sure I can say that I ♥ Michigan too.