Blink and you'll miss it

So in my last post, I made some mention of my fab mini vacation to Michigan.  It was a wonderful, much needed escape and I got to spend it with some of my fave peeps :)


We stayed at a lovely lodge tucked away in the woods (ticks, mosquitoes and bugs oh my)...

a doorway to a place of enchantment....

and my peeps dodging the paparazzi....

couldn't get away from the rain....

and this was just too cool to not photograph it....

Never having had the pleasure of viewing a small town parade, we found a spot on the sidewalk and sat to enjoy some fresh baked cookies and await the fun. Keep in mind, we were accustomed to Chicago parades--you know--like the Pride Parade--that is at least a three hour spectacle. While not expecting anything as elaborate as that, we certainly weren't expecting the parade to be over before we were finished with our cookies. I kid you not. If it was 15 minutes I'll eat my hat. It consisted of three squad cars, a politician, a handful of vets....

one float with the worlds smallest light house.....

a duck...

another squad car, 2 fire trucks and an ambulance.

That's all folks.

The cookies were really good....