the bridge to cherry pie

It was an early start today, wheels rolling by 8:00, mum was doing our hair and she did my hair up really high. I flipped it over, which made it look wacky Dad then suggested maybe we should have a wacky hair day, and that’s what we did (well, for the 1st hour or 2 anyway)! I have been on heaps of bridges in my life time but none of them this enormous! This has to be one of the biggest bridges ever, it was so gargantuan!!! According to wikipedia there are loads of bridges longer, but it seemed to go on forever. We had to pay an annoying toll of $7 but not much I know. Did you know on one side of the Mackinac Bridge is Lake Michigan and on the other is Lake Huron?

As the title said bridge to cherry pie, yes that was the bridge, and no the city is not called cherry pie. However after travelling a while we reached Traverse City which is the city famous for their cherry pies. It was around lunch time when we arrived and we were all hungry for pie... so we had pie! YUM YUM, but really sweet. They said there were 2 types, we chose the less sweet of the 2 - glad we did! We've been very good making our lunch each day - this was the first time we had a bought lunch in America & it was worth waiting for. We went though a really beautiful area past Crystal Lake - it was really pretty, some trees still had their leaves - mostly we've been finding naked trees over the least week or so. I think Dad was getting a bit sick of driving on all the secondary (3rd-ary) roads & was glad to get back onto something decent!

We managed to find a campsite open just near Grand Rapids - all of us were tired by the time we got to the campsite & I think Dad had about had enough of driving! Unusually, the campsite didn't have wifi which was a pain in our rear because we could not post our blogs and Dad couldn’t listen to the All Whites on radio sport like planned (thanks Uncle Steve for the text updates). You wouldn’t believe the difference in the temperature, it so much warmer… well tomorrows Chicago so that will be a happening thing.

Further terms for glossary…
freeway queue = backup
traffic police = state trooper
no exit = no outlet

Love from Deanna...