Vacation to Traverse City and Michigan's Adventure

We just returned from a vacation to Traverse City, Michigan and Michigan's Adventure amusement park.  Lillie has been asking to see a light house, so on the way to Traverse City, we stopped at Pointe Betsy Lighthouse.  We were able to tour the lighthouse and go up to the top of the light house.

Next, we went to Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, national park.

The dunes and Lake Michigan. This dune is over 400 feet tall.

We climbed this sand dune. It was over 350 feet tall.  We all made it to the top, without being carried.

Brian, Lillie and Sophie at the top of the sand dune.

Beth, Lillie and Sophie at the top of the sand dune.

After climbing the sand dunes, we stopped at Moomer's Ice Cream for homemade ice cream. Then we made it to our hotel on the Grand Traverse Bay.

The next day, we played in the water and sand. We even rented a Kayak.

The second day in Traverse City was too cold and windy to go to the beach, so we did some shopping downtown. The following day, we went to Michigan's Adventure amusement park in Muskegon, Michigan.

Lillie and Sophie posed with this Snoopy statue, but Sophie would not stand with the live Charlie Brown, Lucy and Snoopy Characters.

The first day at the park, we rode the rides. This was such a great picture of Lillie on log ride that we had to buy it.  She did go on it again the next day with Brian.  The second day, we spent some time at the water park at Michigan's Adventures. 

Lillie rode several small roller coasters, but her favorite rides were: 1) the scrambler, 2) Tilt-a-whirl, 3) and water slides with an inner tube. These happened to be my favorite as a kid too.  Sophie did not want to ride the flying dumbos, but she would ride the cars with us and Lillie. She even went on the tilt-a-whirl and liked it.

4th of July fun, gymnastics camp and beach time.

We had a great 4th of July.  We helped out with the Jack and Jill Preschool float for the Richland Parade. Later, we had friends over for dinner and fireworks. The girls enjoyed the sparklers and fireworks.

This was Sophie's first year for sparklers and she was mesmerized by them.

This last week, Lillie had a gymnastics camp and Sophie took a gymnastics class.  They both had a great time.

Yesterday, it was 90 degrees, so we went to the beach at Eagle lake to relax and cool off. Sophie loved playing in the sand and Lillie loved playing in the water.