Our timing was great to see a freighter enter a lock from Lake Superior and then drop over 20feet to the rest of the Great Lake's water level.  In the third picture down the distant freighter was just entering and the close freighter was exiting.  We talked to a sailor on the near freighter and was told they were carrying 21,000 tons of Canadian grain.
We also took a ride through the Canadian locks and got to ride the water up & down, looks like everyone was excited to either watch a freighter at the campground......or me taking their picture.

Off to the UP

The M&M is over and several of us are on our way to the UP for a week of  exploring and fun.  After crossing te Mackinaw bridge our firt stop is on the St Mary's River to visit the Soo Locks and watch freighter traffic.
The campgroung we are staying at is right on the river and we can watch them from shore and even while we are inside our HitchHiker.

Randy suggested we eat at Antlers as he goes to the UP often in the witer snowmobiling.  His recommendation was MUCH better than the campground recommendation.

Here we are in the casino buffet restaurant chowing down one afternoon, this was repeated many times.  One of the reasons we returned here a second time (and next year a third time) is the free food we all get for holding our rally at their campground.  We also have a ladder ball tournament and here's some of the action.  Steve & Susy enjoy karaoke and even have their own system they carry with them  As you can see they do get into it!

Lake Michigan sunset

Tonight we went to a small Manistee city park on Lake Michigan to watch the sunset.  On the way home we all stopped at DQ for a Blizzard.

Clown band

Tonight we all went to Scottsville to see the Clown Band.......we had a great time and it was free.  They played for about 2 hours and were hilarious.  Lots of great gags and fun.  The third picture is of Ron Brown getting a lap dance by one of the clowns dressed as a woman.  After it was done the MC asked Ron if he was getting excited by the up close performance.  He them asked Ron where he was from.  The answer brought the whole place down in laughter because Ron is from Climax, MI.  The answer left the MC speechless

Bye Onsted...hello Manistee & the M&M rally

I still can't get Blogger to work with IE9 but it does with Chrome.  Looks like Google want us to use only their browser and not Microsoft!  But....I'm back!

We left Onsted 8/18 for Manistee and Little River Casino for the HitchHiker M&M (Michigan Mini( rally.  We have 20 HHs attending this year.  We spent time relaxing, chowing down at the casino (they give us $10/day/person), doing a little gambling (they give each person $50 in free money) and making a few trips to explore the local area.  

Visit with Bev and her family

Today we went to Evans Lake Resort to visit with Bev and one granddaughter, Hannah. Bev has rented a cottage for a vacation and Hannah went with her for a couple days. After going out to lunch we stopped at our place and Hannah enjoyed driving the Gator and exploring Randy & Kristi's property. On Tuesday we returned to visit with Bev, Jason, Sharon & Clare.
I'm having some troubles with the pictures and will post as I can.