July 16, 2008

Hi Again -- You may be wondering why we are up-dating this blog just two days after our last up-date. Well, for one thing, lots has happened. And, secondly, we are about to enter into Canada on Friday. (More about that later.)

When we left St. Ignace on Monday, we crossed over the longest suspension bridge in the Western Hemisphere. This bridge, the Mackinac Bridge, connects Michigan's two peninsulas. (See picture of bridge below, taken from RV.) We drove all day Monday and arrived at the RV park in Ann Arbor, MI by 6 p.m. This is the same park we stayed at last year. We ended up in the exact space as last year, too. We love it because, from our front window, we see only trees and the lake.

Last night (as we did last year when we were here), we had dinner with our long-time friends, John and Gale, and their 19 year old daughter, Annie. We enjoyed catching up with them. John never fails to remind us that, when he knew us years ago, we were the only people he knew who had a teenager in the house. He always wants to know how hold she is now. Susan, he is talking about you!

We have a rented car from Enterprise, so today we went to the Ann Arbor Art Festival, which is hugh. Thousands of vendors from many differents states come here for the Festival to show their art works -- paintings, glass, pottery, jewelry, wood, clothing, ceramics etc. That part was great. But, we couldn't take the heat. It was 94 degrees -- too hot to enjoy the sights.

On Friday we leave for Canada to see Niagara Falls from the Canadian side. We checked with Verizon today, and were told that our PC cards (to get us on the internet) will not work in Canada, and our cell phones will cost between $.78-$2.00 a minute to use. Soooo -- we've decided that we will turn off our cell phones when we are in Canada. If anyone absolutely needs to reach us, we will be at the Niagara Falls Jellystone Park (tele: 905-354-1432). We will be back in the USA on July 22. Later -- Jerry and Mary