If you live in Michigan and you've never been to Mackinac Island, your Michigander/Michiganian/Michigunner card may get revoked.
So to ensure that didn't happen, we took the kids to the Island. We'd last been there with Murph many many moons ago, prior to les enfants.
We met the ferry at Mackinaw City for the ride to Mackinac Island. Note both Mackinaw and Mackinac are pronounced the same - Mack-i-naw. One's got the English spelling for the word, one has the French.
The weather however was fog, Low IFR with a cloud base of 100 feet. Just as well we didn't fly there. I could have take pictures on the ferry but the visibility was almost 0/0 On the ferry. For example you could not see the Mackinac bridge to the Upper Peninsula from the ferry and you normally can see it.
We arrived at the Island and started looking around.
The fog would stay and we'd get more and more rain throughout our day on the island but we were going to make the best of it.
The first thing one does on Mackinac is search for its #1 export product - Fudge!
We went to Murdick's fudge shop. Yes, you can order some of these delectables online if you can't make it to Mackinac yourself.
We got to see fudge being made on marble slabs, being poured out and then being turned into tasty bars of tastiness.
We got some chocolate cherry and chocolate sea-salted caramel fudge, which was awesome. Just don't try to eat an entire piece in one sitting. Nothing good will happen.
We then wandered around the charming downtown area.
The place was still hopping, even with the constant drizzle.
We wandered around and then headed to the fort.
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Many years ago as a Boy Scout I had the honor of helping to raise and lower the fort's flag for a week in the summer. We stayed in the barracks behind the fort and stood duty to give directions to the tourists.
DaveS: That must have been a very cool experience indeed. they've done a nice job keeping the fort maintained and have some very knowledgeable and friendly interpreters there presently.
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