Time for play....

July 7 – Time to play tourist!

Today we drove just south to Grand Haven where we first stopped at the Tri-County Museum in town.  Boy, was it busy down there!  Lots of shops, restaurants and people.  It’s right on the coast of Lake Michigan and was loaded with tourist for the weekend.  The staff at the museum stamped my passport book with the Grand Lake Lighthouse stamp and gave me directions where I could best see it.  There was no parking along the street so Bill had dropped me off and said to call when I was ready.  He found a spot a street over and zipped around to get me.

Traffic to the lighthouse area was bumper to bumper.  That is the main beach area and

The 2 lighthouses of Grand Haven

there’s also a state park there with a pretty large campground.  We knew parking was not going to happen so Bill dropped me off and I kinda, well, not kinda, I DID sneak in to the state park and walked through the campground (which are tiny cramped spaces) out to the beach and trudged along in the sand to where I could get a decent photo of the lighthouse and the second one right behind it.  Technically you can walk out to the tall one but the second one is under repairs so you can’t get to it.

I got my photo and was heading back and as I walked up the sidewalk along the right side I was scoping whether to go right or left at the cross walk and meet Bill in a different spot.  I didn’t notice about a foot of the edge of the sidewalk was broken off and my right foot hit it and I went down!  Is that my punishment for trespassing?  I guess things have a way of catching up to you.  Well, some guys were across the way and asked if I was OK or needed assistance.  I didn’t do the proper “tuck and roll”, rather I braced my fall with my left hand and scraped my palm a bit.  I landed on my left hip and discovered later I must have kept my arm straight as my worst pain later is in my left shoulder.

I tried to look like I was fine as I walked passed the guys and over to the road where I called Bill to let me know where to pick me up.  I’m sure I’ll be worse tomorrow.

We left Grand Haven with the plan to come back on a week day when we can browse around and find parking.  Bill wanted some things from Camping World so there is one west of Grand Rapids and near Grandville, which is where we were headed.  That is one of the biggest Camping Worlds we have ever seen.  Bill got his parts but mine for my stove would need to be ordered, so I’ll do it on line or call the company that Camping World would be calling anyway.

By now we were hungry and were headed to World Market.  On the way we saw a BBQ place, Famous Dave’s BBQ.  We’d never heard of one but took a chance and had a good lunch.  Had my first salad with brisket with a BBQ honey dressing.  It was delicious, especially the corn muffin that came with it.  That was superb!  Bill had a lunch combo of ribs and brisket.  He wasn’t crazy about his ribs.

The plan was for him to go to see the Ant-man movie while I did my shopping, so I dropped him at the movie then I went to Dollar Tree, World Market, Bath and Body Works and Kohl’s.  I parked near the entrance where I dropped him and the Younkers store.  When he came out we went to Younkers to see if we could get any more bargains, and we did!  Everything was either 50% or 60% off and we got another 20% as seniors.  Bill got socks, 2 pair of slacks, and a shirt and I found black sneakers, bras and a pair of capris.  We will continue to visit the one closer to us each time we’re over there.  Never know what we will find.

Time to head for the ranch!  Once we put things away I had a glass of wine and read and he was out and about.