Stop 1: visit Avery in Rochester (Oh, and the other Van Dammes too)





Windsor: Nelson & Yvonne Voakes, Geralyn, Mary Ann Bottisan,
Jerry & Celeste Larsen (from Siberia and Colorado), Jim & Mary Margaret





Some guy feeding the birds down by the Detroit River, in Windsor






Mathew Pariseau gets some air






Tiffany Pariseau attemps to levitate without all that work





Somer Brez Pariseau hangs loose





The Van Hout clan ready to party






Sittin' on the Vollmayers' dock of the bay






Amanda Van Hout




In Midland, we visited Christina Moore





If you seek a beautiful peninsula, take your pick here.
And while you're at it, see which Great Lake you like better







After we've seen the Cosgrove relatives and toured the cemetery,
what is there to do in Gladstone, Michigan if you don't fish for walleye?
Well, they have their claim to fame and here it is.





The critters are friendly in the U.P.






Munising Falls: 50 feet of delicate beauty.






The lighthouse in Munising Bay







Pictured Rocks National Seashore






...then the fog rolled into Battleship Row






Miner's Castle, on our last visit in 1972





What it looks like today, after the East turret slid into Lake Superior in April





Well, it's still pretty







Trumpeter swans,  back from near extinction, at Seney National Wildlife refuge
They've got loons, too..that's a deer at the edge of the lake







Wagner Falls. No, we didn't see all 200 waterfalls in the U.P.






Of course, we had to see Tahquamenon.
It's 50 feet high and 200 feet across.






The ore carriers still pass Whitefish Point







Rush hour in Paradise, south of Whitefish Point






In Manistee, we met Dottie Murray, Mickey and his wife Carol, and Becky and her grandkids.
Which we only do about every 40 years.





In St. Mary's, the high point of Ohio (elev. 670 ft.) Fr. Ed
showed us the canal boat on the Erie-Miami canal.






We tried to tell Avery about our trip. 
Well, I hope you were more interested than she was.

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The Pariseau kids are Jim's sister Mary's kids




I don't know why they spelled it this way




Christina Moore is Jim's niece





Looking North at the Mackinac Bridge, you see the Upper Peninsula,  with Lake Michigan to the west and Lake Huron to the right.




The Cosgroves are Mary Margaret's long-lost relatives in the U.P.





Mickey and Becky  are Jim's second cousins. Trivia: Jim's middle name is Murray. Coincidence?  No.





Fr. Ed Oen is the priest who officiated at our wedding, July 6, 1974