Michigan City

A couple of weeks ago, my Shug and I took off for Michigan City, Indiana.  

They have a beach on Lake Michigan

an Outlet Mall

and a casino with a hotel to stay in.

Our first stop was dinner.  We ate at the restaurant above...the food was mediocre, but the view was good!

After eating we went for a long walk.   Aren't these baby ducks adorable!

We walked to the lighthouse.

I love lighthouse pictures!

We went to the beach, but it was chilly out that day.

selfies!

 

Look in my sunglasses - you can see my hands taking our picture!  Funny!

And we walked to the harbor!

I love harbors.  There is just something romantic about them.

My favorite song in the world is Brandy....

You have to be a late 70's early 80's person to know that song.  It really is my favorite song in the whole world.

Are you tired of harbor pictures?

How could you be!

Arm in sunglasses again!  Lol!  Harbor in background.

Harbor

Harbor

Harbor!

You just can't take a bad harbor picture.

You can't take a bad muffin and latte' picture either! We went to this coffee shop the next morning and I LOVED IT! 

Then we headed home.
This is SWAMP land.  Who knew?  I didn't know we had such stuff in Indiana.  I thought it was all in the South!

That is water with algae on it.  Swampy....No harbor here.

Here's the thing about these pictures.  This place is all about wildlife.  Bees, birds, butterflies, etc. need messy, non-golf course type yards to survive.  The mind-set is starting to change a little, because people are getting worried that they will have to use a paint brush to pollinate their apple trees like they do in China.  Keep using chemicals and it will happen.  I can't say it enough.  That chemical does not know the difference between a good bug and a bad bug.  It kills them ALL. 

I heard that the red wing black bird has declined 65% because of chemicals.  They eat bugs.  There aren't enough bugs for the red wing black birds to eat and survive, so they are on their way out.  I'd hate to see that happen with other bug eating birds as well.  Ok - enough preaching for today.

We stopped off at a discount store called Baileys....This place is HUGE and it has EVERYTHING!
I bought socks, Dave bought a straw hat.  Seriously....we stopped at a place like this and bought socks and a hat.  Weird.

Then, on the way home I saw Broken Arrow Campground!

As a kid we used to camp at this place a lot.

So I turned around and took a tour.  

I wouldn't have recognized it, of course, I was too young to remember details.

I just remember taking hay rides and singing.......
get your singing voice on.....sing with me now......

Found a peanut
Found a peanut
Found a peanuuuuut just now......
Just now I found a peanut,
found a peanut
just now......

Who knows that song?

Cracked it open.....

It was rotten......

Ate it anyway....
GASP!  More harbor pictures!  How'd they get down here......I might just print some and frame them or something....

there's a port on a Western bay....
and it serves a hundred ships a day
lonely sailors pass the time away
talking about their home....

Speaking of home.....check out this shower in our hotel room!  I have stayed at this hotel a few times, but NEVER on the "spa" side, until this time.  Laa teeee da!

Cindy Bee

PS - Found a peanut found a peanut found a peeeeaaanut just now.....

Happy 4th of July - Conner Prairie

Last night we went to the Symphony on the Prairie at Conner Prairie in Fishers, IN.  We've been several times, and it is wonderful.  If you've never been, you should go. 

My Sister gave me a birthday present last night, and I was feeling kind of bad for posting a picture of her on facebook, until I saw this today!  She gave me bunny ears!  And no one said anything.

The plate I am holding is what her daughter made for me for my birthday. 

Special.

 This is my Sister's friend, Christy.

 I made some cupcakes yesterday for a couple of occasions.  I thought it would be cute to dye the frosting for a flag shape. 

 When you don't have time to be Martha, you do stuff like this!

 During the first half of the concert, people are dressed up in veteran war outfits.  One of the songs is a medley of all of the service songs.   If you are a veteran, when your song is played, you stand up.

 A uniformed person will come to you, salute you, and shake your hand for serving our country.

 I think about those boys, leaving their families, and homes, and going off to fight a war, for us.  Chokes me up I tell ya.

 You can see by the people in attendance this isn't a small crowd.  There are thousands of people here....and during part of the ceremony they march the flags through the crowd to the stage, and everyone stands.  Very moving.

 Look at all of the people.

 selfie with my sister

 Below is a picture of my my sister (right) me, My sister's daughter (left of me) and her daughter's friend (in the green)  Notice all of the people behind us.  We are all sitting on a prairie.  

Hence the uneven ground.

 As I said earlier, I felt kind of bad for posting this picture on facebook!

 I am still laughing!!!!

 Even funnier!!!  LOL!  You had to be there.  We were on a somewhat steep hillside!  She just sort of crumbled down, in slow motion.....

 OK - start singing Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture....

BA DA DAA DA DA DA DA DAA DAAA!

 BOOM!!!  (imagine cannon's going off - because they do at Symphony on the prairie!!! LOVE IT!)

 BA DA DA DA DA DA DA DAA DAAAA!

  BOOM!!

BA DA DAA DAA DAAA DA DAA DA DAAAA!

 BOOM!!!!

 Now imagine...all of these people trying to get out of this place.....oh  my gosh......

We waited in our car for an hour before we moved.  It was worth it!

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!!!
Happy
Birthday 
America!!!
 Cindy Bee

PS - ba daa daa da da daa da daa daaa BOOM! 
I hope you don't get that stuck in your head all day!!!!