The fifth annual M&M ends

Ann & Lois check out Gary & Suzanne's escape window.

Mary, Robert & Ann are cold.

and so are Karon and Larry!  This might be mid August but in the shade when the sun is going down it's brisk.

  We had 15 HitchHikers and couples for the rally.  Here we all are except Fred & Mary Lou who left this morning.  We closed the rally with a pot luck dinner and campfire.

Visit to the links, and the track and a campfire

Ron & Roberta Austin with Roy Bliss on the putt putt course.

Then it off to the track......

Harold was a fanatic on the track and went like a bat out of.....you know where.

Larry starts the evening campfire.

Gary has a very long stick.

The HitchHiker gang.

Fankenmuth & Bavarian Inn for lunch

Several of the folks wanted to check out Frankenmuth so most of us had lunch at the Bavarian Inn then did some sightseeing.

We went outside to watch the glockenspeil, here the pied piper discusses with the mayor what he can do to help rid the city of the rats.

And here the pied piper leads the rats out of town.  Now, I think we remember what happens next with the children but your not going to see it as the heavens opened up and the rains came and came and came!  we all got wet.

M&M opening

Robert Posey going through the chow line, Judy & I supply the brats and dogs for the first evenings pot luck.

Roy Bliss and Ron Austin tested they horseshoe skills.

Boat ride on the Saginaw River

Many of the 15 HitchHikers are here already although the rally doesn't start until Sunday.  Judy found a free 2 hour boat ride on the Saginaw River from Bay City to the mouth of the river and about 10 or 12 of us took advantage of it.

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                                                                    USS Edson

A really really crooked dock!

                                                           Harold, Karen and Judy

During the boat ride Roy spotted one of his favorite watering holes and got excited.

Of course we had to go there for lunch.

Happy Hooters Roy

Off to the M&M Rally

Yesterday we took Devyn to soccer practice so we stayed in Onsted one more day.  Today we packed up and made the 150 mile trip north to Essexville for the M&M Rally on Saginaw Bay.  We are expecting 15 HitchHikers and many of our RV family friends.  The rally is at a county park called Finn Road Park.

Two days till departure

Randy cleared out my phone as it was getting slow and "kinky" so I now need pictures of my contacts. Judy photo bombed Devyn's picture!

We have been playing lots of Pegs and Jokers with D, she loves cards and games.  We have also been teaching her how to play euchre.  This picture was taken a couple evenings ago after the games.  Notice how tall Randy and Devyn are?  Or how short Judy is!

After Judy's last doctors appointment in Ann Arbor we stopped in Saline to check out Randy where he works at Klingelneurg America, a German company.  These two pictures are some of the gear cutting machines he works on.  It belongs to Honda and they shipped it from Japan to be refurbished and then sent to one of their plants in the US.  Randy left Ford a few weeks ago to return to his former employer to start up a refurbishment organization now that they have new and improved management.  He's hiring, need a job?

The Saline plant were he works.

This is a one of custom machine used to QC gears and verify they are in tolerance.