Visits from Children and Travel Day to Port Sanilac

Last weekend, we enjoyed a visit from our son, John, who drove from Jeffersonville to Kalamazoo to visit both us as well as his Uncle Mike and Aunt Joanne.  Saturday was busy as we met some friemds of Mike and Joanne's for breakfast at LaRue's in Kalamazoo (wonderful buckwheat pancakes!).  After breakfast, we drove to Grand Rapids to visit the Gerald Ford Musuem.  The museum is very interesting and very well put together to follow Gerald Ford's career leading up to his presidency as the only president to never be elected to the office of either president or vice president. 

Replica of cabinet room

John, Pat, and Mike with Gerald Ford statue

After John left on Sunday, Cathy arrived to spend time with us and Uncle Mike and Aunt Joanne.  Besides going to dinner at The Blue Gate in Shipshewanna, Cathy spent time visiting with us.  Abby and Hallie (Cathy's dog) enjoyed playing together and became very good friends.

Today, we departed Kalamazoo but not until we solved a problem with our hydraulics.  When we put the slides in, it didn't sound right and then the landing gear would only rise a little bit at a time.  After talking to our RV repair place, Indiana Interstate RV owned by Paul Cross, we were able to slove the problem.  It was a reset on the battery that had popped and just had to be reset.  We finally started our 250 mile drive across Michigan at 10:30 am.  At about 3:30 we arrived at Forster Park in Sanilac County--what a lovely setting with trees sitting right on Lake Huron shore.  Unfortunately, the campground is very sandy and with our size and weight, we couldn't back into any of the available sites.  The folks at the campground were very nice and refunded our camping fees.  We ended up down the road a couple of miles and were able to get a site at Lake Huron Campground with full hook-ups and 50 amp service.  I believe this is a relatively new campground and doesn't have many scenic attributes but, at least, the camper doesn't sink into the ground!  We did meet some very nice folks and plan to have them over for supper tomorrow.  We are not very far from Lake Huron as evidenced by these pictures:

So ends another day on our journey!  EASY LIVING!!