this 2 of the walls in that 2 star hotel that i told you about in the last post...the door to the room barely shut...the tv in this room was massive...it took up almost the entire room...needless to say it looks like i won't be picking the motel/hotel from now on...haaaaaaaaaaaaa...we woke up saturday morning and got on the road about 8:30am or so...we drove an hour to the canada/u.s. border...i called pappa at 9:30am and told him we were just getting to the border...he said once through we were only about 3 hours or so from them....great! we sat waiting to go through the toll booth for a long time...finally got through the toll and then sat for even longer waiting to get to the border...i had to pee so bad at this point...we were halfway over the bridge...which for those of you that know i have a little fear of heights when i don't feel safe...i kept imagining the car going over the railing or me getting out the car and going over the railing...haaaaaaaaaaaa...yes im a dork.....anyway...there was a huge rv that was in the lane next to us this entire time...i was sooooooo tempted to get out (i was driving) and ask if i could use their bathroom....but alas i did not do this....we finally (2 hours later) got across the border...and we were on our way after a bathroom stop that should have been timed i had to go so bad...haaa.....we rolled into pappa's place about 3:30 or so that afternoon...uncle dan and aunt barb came over and we all went into grand haven and walked the boardwalk...it was beautiful...(i guess the rain has lost us with all this travel)...dom got a pronto pup with barb....i tried it but i like corn dogs better because there is more corn on a corn dog...which is good especially if you don't really like hot dogs...hahahahah.....we ate dinner at a restaurant called kirby's...the food wasn't that great all around but the company was amazing...it was sooooo great to be able to hang out with pappa, darlene, dan, barb, dom and i....usually when i see them it's at some family event and we don't really get a chance to talk....
i should mention that my pappa was an engineer and so this caused or prompted a lot of conversation between him and dominic...pappa was full of questions for dominic about what he does in an outage....was funny...
we got back from dinner and dom, pappa, darlene and i stayed up til 1am talking...it was so fun...but man did i sleep hard that night...i didn't realize how tired i was and i don't think i realized how much finding a job was taking out of me...but i slept through the night (a first so far this summer)
we got up about 10am sunday and had our coffee with pappa and darlene on the deck...dan and barb came over and we all made our way to the beach...it was windy but we found a spot by a sand dune and it wasn't as bad...dom, dan and i played frisbee for awhile...it was relaxed and chill...very nice...then went back to pappa's place and played euchre (it's a card game)...i have played it before but long ago...we beat them 2 games to 1...nice...dinner was grilled steaks, potatoes, beans, and salad...it was great....ice cream with fresh fruit on it followed for dessert...dan and barb left about 9 and the rest of us stayed up til about midnight talking again...
dominic and i weren't in a hurry to leave today so we got up (i slept through the night again!!)...got our coffee and we all went out on pappa's pontoon for a coffee boat tour...we went up to grand haven it was really nice and relaxing...
clifford joined us as well and had a good chat with pappa...we stopped on the way back at a little deck restaurant and had lunch...then putt-putted our way home...dom and i packed up and started on our way to chicago...which is where we are headed now...seems like a quick trip (only 3 hours) compared to what we have been doing and what we will be doing in the next couple of weeks...well off for now...we are going to dom's place and will find out how much of his stuff has been destroyed by the flooding that happened in the basement (his room) when chicago got downpours of rain last week...we'll see...til the next post...oh yeah incase you didn't read close enough in the last blog...I GOT A JOB!!! sorry just really excited about it....haaaaaaaaaa
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