June 2022: Michigan Trip - Mackinac Island

The last time we visited Mackinac Island, I was pregnant with Agnes and Edie slept the entire bike around the island. This time they both got to see and enjoy the ride!

We started our day on the island with the horse-drawn wagon tour. It's a lovely way to see both the town and the state park (national park?).

(Don't mind Catherine - she's just wondering at what point the horse-hair-infested-air all over the island is going to cause her face to swell up.)

One of the nice stops on the tour is this rock bridge. (Don't mind Edie - she's in a super-pout over us all sitting in the back rows of the wagon in order to put as much distance between Catherine and the horses as possible.)

I really love the bike path around the island, but maybe next time we make it out we won't have any babies in trailers and we can kayak around the island instead.

The walk down the hill from the end of the wagon tour back into town has great views.

Agnes was still hitching rides as often as she could.

We got some pizza for lunch and ate it in the park, until we noticed a pack of seagulls surrounding us and moving inward in a coordinated attack pattern. Gussie started throwing them bits of crust to keep them appeased, and then they started fighting with each other and ignoring us so we were safe.

Gussie then took my camera and harassed Olivia, Uncle Chris, and Aunt Sunny for a while.

Full of pizza and with plenty of water, we headed out on the bike path.

We stopped along the way to play on the smooth rock beaches. Spoiler alert: none of us are good at skipping stones. But we can chuck them pretty far.

Video Interlude: Here's everyone getting started again after a play break.

And we stopped in the shade before returning to the town to climb some trees, inspect some rocks, and find a giant snail.

We got some ice cream while waiting for the ferry to take us back across to the mainland. 

It had warmed up a bit so we braved the top deck even though we knew it would be windy.

I told Catherine to take a selfie with me but she didn't have her sunglasses and said it was too bright to open her eyes.

Edie found her own solution when no one was interested in listening to her complaints about the sun and wind. All good!