Labor Day

I am about two weeks behind on updates, you will just have to live with it, pretend its like time travel and you get to relive the last two weeks of your life vicariously through me.

So after having our beautiful wedding on Saturday Matthew and I took the long drive to Mackinaw to walk the Mackinac Bridge on Labor day. We have wanted to do this for the last few years but haven’t been able to. So this year regardless of the fact we had a wedding the day before we decided that we were going this year. What I didn’t consider was driving that far after our wedding day with slight hangovers and severe exhaustion.

We stayed at a great little Bed and Breakfast names the Colonial House Inn in St. Ignace. The rooms were very nice, right by the water, and the house was well preserved. The bathroom was huge which is always a nice feature. I highly recommend it to anyone staying in the area that is looking for a nice relaxing evening. We really enjoyed sitting on the balcony and watching the water.

Sunday evening we walked around St.Ignace and of course bought some fudge and fresh water taffy. Also a pair of walking shoes since of course I forgot to pack mine and I couldn’t walk the bridge in sandals. We ate at a really nice dinner, the Ma and Pa kind, my favorite.

On Monday we woke up early, I grabbed some muffins and we headed out to walk the bridge. There is still a debate on how long the actual walk is so I’ll just say more than five miles. I think everyone can agree on that. We did our bridge walk in about an hour and a half, one of our best distance times. I think it was the adrenaline of being on the bridge in that large crowd. We walked on the grating and Matt was finally able to get over his gephyrophobia. He did great. After walking the bridge from St. Ignace to Mackinaw city we went to get in line to ride a bus back over and get to our car, since we stayed in St.Ignace. Five and a half hours later we finally boarded our bus. Everyone in line said it is normally a ten to twenty minute wait. So apparently someone really dropped the ball this year or they didn’t expect such a large turn out. They usually stop walkers from crossing the bridge at 11am but at 2pm when we finally made it back there were people just starting the walk. I’m not sure how long they continued to let people walk, but the Bridge Authority said everyone who wanted to walk would have the chance. At one point I heard that 85,000 people had crossed the bridge, but later we can only confirm 57,000, from the official website. Still a record.

On the way home we stopped in at the good ol’ Sea Shell City for the required Mackinaw purchases. We even had a happier ending when we returned home and heard the football scores. It was a wonderful ending to a wonderful wedding weekend.