Great food, great friends, great day!

July 30 – What a great day we had with Mike and Nancy in Lansing!  On the way out of Muskegon Bill showed me some itchy spots on his wrists and I told him I think it’s poison ivy or oak, so we made a quick stop at Wal-mart for some anti-itch cream and made our way to Lansing.

Mike and Nancy have been in their new home about a year and it’s gorgeous!  They had looked for a place for quite a while and finally found the house and pretty much only had to repaint the inside a color they could live with!  Nancy prepared a great lunch of homemade chicken salad and it was delicious!  We ate outside on the porch under the awning and the weather could not have been better.

Dinner on the porch

After lunch the men and women went to their respective corners and I cannot vouch for what the guys discussed but Nancy and I covered kids, jobs, decorating and we spent some time in a training session of how to get all of her photos organized in a safe place.  I’m no expert but I think I advised her in the right direction of an external drive or flash drive.  She had a flash drive so we did some practice and I told her to call me if she needed me. 

We had a tour of the house and the downstairs is where the guest rooms are due to the house structure into the land.  They have a huge great room with 2 bedrooms and a bath.  The perk is there’s a partial kitchen and an outside entrance which makes it a great set up to rent as an Airbnb.  They seem interested in the prospect, as least during football season at Michigan State which is just around the corner. 

Bill wanted to see the campus so we took a drive and then stopped at their Younkers to see what they still have versus the Muskegon store.  I got some great deals for the grandkids for Christmas!  We headed back to their place and Mike grilled the BEST steaks I’ve had in a long while!  Nancy topped it with off with huge baked potatoes, a Caesar salad, after whitch we were stuffed, BUT, there was dessert to follow:  brownies with ice cream!  I’ll need to walk a couple of miles to work that all off! 

We truly had a great visit and it was nice to get to know another of Bill’s high school friends and match a face to the name!  We didn’t get on the road home until after 9 and Bill drove most of the way til his leg started cramping then I took over for the final leg  (get it?)

We hope to at least get to meet somewhere in the middle for lunch one day in August.