Sunday, July 22, 2007

Back From Ludington

We just returned home from our week up in Ludington at my folks beach house. We had a nice, relaxing week away from Grand Rapids.
Our 10 days away began with a visit from my folks as well as our fabulous Beach Day party attended by many of our old and new friends. As you can see, Seamus and my folks dog Zoe had a fabulous time.
Stuart was very interested in his new surroundings. He especially enjoyed looking at the lake.
And here we have Janna with her ridiculous baby sling, it was the only was to take Stuart down to the beach. I hate that thing with a passion, interestingly so does he.
We had wonderful weather most of the week and towards the end of the week the sky was consistently blue and beautiful.
Here we have a look at the beach from the steps at my folks house. It's something like 266 steps to the bottom, needless to say we would rather drive a mile up the road to the public beach rather than drag Stuart and his gear all the way down there.
We saw plenty of boaters during our week. My father bought himself a boat and from all accounts nearly killed Mark and Linda on it last Saturday. I'll be staying as far away from it as possible.

In the end, the great part about this beach house is the sunsets and here we have quite a few:
And so we've returned to the compound, rested and relaxed. Thanks to everyone who came to our party, we had a great time and hope you did to.

4 comments:

Mark said...

Accounts of my near-death have been greatly overstated. I merely stumbled a bit trying to sit down when we hit choppy waters, it's not like I was hanging out of the boat or anything. You really should go out sometime, it's a lot of fun.

Very nice place y'all got up there. That sunset looks gorgeous.

Joy said...

a) Those sunset pics are spectacular!
b) Perhaps a tow rope near the steps would be nice. Or a gondola on a cable to bring you up and down.
c) That baby is just too cute.
d) I'm glad you had a relaxing time. Thank you for taking such good care of Janna.

Mrs. P said...

Precious Stuart looks so much older than he did when he left!

Great shots of the sunset!

Loretta said...

wow, i bet you have a sunset every night...