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2005 Mackinac Island

With our son at my sister's, our daughter at Girl Scout camp, and a relative lull in business, it was at last time to belatedly celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary with a flight to Mackinac Island and Door County, WI. 

After 15 years of parenthood, we have grown accustomed to communicating in bursts of verbal shorthand, since with two kids there is little hope of completing a sentence uninterrupted.  With a full 96 child-less hours on the agenda, at our two favorite spots in the world, we were actually able to hold complete conversations that lasted more than a few seconds!

And, of course, we were able to meet pilots and FBOs all along the way, distributing brochures and flyers everywhere along our route of flight.

Here are a few pictures from that flight around the Great Lakes....

Dropping our son off in Michigan...

The incredible Mackinac Bridge connects the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan

At over 5 miles long...

...in the Western Hemisphere...

Longer even than the Golden Gate!

As it passes by...

Doing some maintenance...

And falls beneath us...

You can really see the size of the thing...

St. Ignace pulls into view...

Base to final for Mackinac County (St Ignace)

Short final at St Ignace...

Mary at the St Ignace airport...

The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island...

The largest seasonal hotel in the world (it's closed all winter)

Private homes on the island are astronomically expensive...

There's the island airport...

Their quaint FBO is run by the national park service...

Jay with Atlas on the ramp on Mackinac Island...

The "required" picture under the sign (Not only did we kick a guy off the bench, we made him take the picture!)

A nice vista on the walk into town...

The Grand Hotel from our carriage...

Mary on the Grand Hotel's porch...

Both of us on that incredible porch. It was 94 degrees!

A few of downtown from our horse-drawn taxi...

The steeple is leaning to the right noticably!

A view of the bridge from ground level, on the St Ignace side...

Mary with the bridge behind...

Flying down the peninsula, Fish Creek rolls into view...

Jay at the Ephraim, WI airport...

Atlas on the ramp...

Mary with Atlas....

A portrait taken at the Greenwood Restaurant in Door County...

Mary with our horse-drawn carriage in Sister Bay...

On our way home I snapped this shot of Lambeau Field in Green Bay...

And Oshkosh getting ready for the show next week!

You can see some activity already going on...

In ten days taking this picture would be illegal!

A self-portrait on the flight home...

Through towering cumulus clouds...

A beautiful end to a wonderful flight...