Monday, 4/13/26, Ate at our hotel, met Mike and Jean at Connie’s restaurant, went to their house, came home and it was a beautiful drive, stopped in Tawas and shopped, stopped for ice cream in Standish

Bill eating breakfast at our hotel this morning.  They had the best food and it was set up so nice.  They also had the biggest chocolate chip cookies wrapped up in Saran Wrap that were delicious.  

Bill, Jean, Mike and Me when we were leaving their house after a nice visit

 

For at least 20 miles after we left Aspena and a ways before we got to Osceola there were lots of trees down because of the recent ice storm up there.

Driving along the lake

Having ice cream at our favorite place in Standish. Bill had a hot fudge sundae and I had a Armieto Cherry Chocolate cone

We stopped at the park in Tawas for some pictures.  It was 72 degrees and beautiful out.

 Selfie Bill took of us.  He has a great camera for taking far away pictures.  I zoomed in on both of these.

            Selfie I took of us right afterward.  My Apple phone takes pretty good pictures.

I came home and my daffodils were all opened around the yard and also my hyacinths are opening

So beautiful!

We got ready, then went to eat breakfast at our hotel.  It was a great breakfast, and the dining area was so nice.  We really enjoyed our time at this hotel.  They actually packed bags and had them sitting on the counter where you check in, so if you had to leave early, you would have a bag of good stuff to eat or if you slept in and missed the breakfast time.  They were just so nice here.  They had the best coffee all the time too and good creamer.  

It was in the 60’s already when we got up.  No rain this morning when we loaded our stuff in the Jeep either.  So nice out! We drove to a Honda dealer and went inside and looked around.  Then we drove through a camper sales place.  By that time it was time to meet our brother in law, Mike and his wife Jean at Connie’s restaurant.  It was a nice little restaurant with great food.  We ate light because we weren’t that hungry.  They had amazing looking cinnamon rolls in a really big size and a regular size.  We got 2 regular size ones to take home.  We sure had a nice visit and Bill got to share his Vision with them.  We were surprised Mike hadn’t heard it yet.  They loved hearing it.  I loved hearing it again too.  They invited us to their house to visit more, so we went for about 1 1/2 hours.  They had a tree in a storm fall on their house and it brought down the eave trough and also just missed breaking a big window it just missed.  Mike and Bill walked around the yard, and Jean and I went inside and their dogs greeted us.  They were pretty excited, but calmed down when we sat on the couch.  We had to leave, and I was so thankful Bill remembered to take a picture of the 4 of us.  I had mentioned it, but forgot.  Then we left and headed home.  

We took a different route this time and drove through Oscoda, Tawas and AuGres.  I love that way because it’s always nice driving along the lake.  We saw lots of downed trees because of the ice storm.  Lots of houses had trees on them too.  What a mess.  It wasn’t as bad as last year’s ice Storm up by Gaylord and Cadillac though. We stopped in Tawas and walked through my favorite Ben Franklin Store.  They have so much neat stuff in it.  Lots of new stuff this year.  Then we went through another nice store and got some packaged chicken noodle soup mix.  I tried some onion soup that she had made in the crockpot and was giving samples of.  It was so good.  We went with Bill’s favorite though.  We went through a couple more shops, then went and drove through the campground right in Tawas.  After that we went to the beach and just walked around some and took some pictures.  We left and our next stop was for ice cream in Standish.  Our diets start tomorrow.  

We were happy to get home and I was so happy to see all my daffodils were opened up and so were my hyacinths.  So pretty! The daffodils out by the shed have so many blossoms.  I didn’t take any pictures of those ones because I was talking on my phone to Laicey.  We got unpacked an put everything away. 

I filled all of my bird feeders.  There were so many birds out side and the feeders were getting kind of low on food.  Kit Kat had plenty of food left.  I went in the house and fed my inside fish in the basement too.  We relaxed after that.

We ate two small pieces of pizza from our left over pizza, then split one cinnamon roll.  Yum it was so good.  Bill said, why don’t we eat the other one, so we split that one too.  Now we are for sure starting our diet and exercise program tomorrow.  

I worked on finishing my yesterday’s blog and doing today’s blog.  Then we relaxed more.