Monday, September 28, 2015
I am including Sunday and today in this blog, as we were so busy yesterday and we didn't have time to enter our fun and excitement until now.  We arrived at Garry and Pat Scribner's in Bancroft, MI early afternoon on Sunday.  We have gotten pictures and many updates from Pat and Garry over the years, about their grandchildren, and it was good to finally meet them.  They are very well behaved, and polite children, and quite active.  They are involved in a lot of things at home and at school, and that makes for healthy youngsters!  We met Pat and Garry in Arizona, several years ago, when they arrived in the same park as us, and we did a lot of hiking together, and attended social events.   Pat and Garry took us to see the Scribner Farm and we met several of their relatives, and saw where they spend a lot of their summers, at this wonderful pond!  We returned to their place and shared a meal of slow cooked ribs, salads, and apple pie!  We did stay up long enough to see the Blood Moon.  I will be 93 when the next eclipse happens, so "if I still have my memory", I will always remember where I was when I saw the last one!  We were lucky that the clouds dispersed just in time for us to see it quite well.  It was a wonderful, but short stay, and we struck off for northern MI this morning.  We had intended to go to the 2nd largest falls east of the Mississippi River (2nd to Niagara Falls) and also do Pictured Rock, but it looks like rain and the cold front is coming in. We opted to find a campground on Hwy. 2 that has cable and we will stay put for tonight and watch the Packers.  We'll arrive back at Eagle's Landing (our homey shed) tomorrow afternoon.  We are ready to plant our feet for a bit!  It's been a great trip, but we have two weeks to unpack, repack and leave for the southwest by the 16th of October!

Relaxing on the Scribner deck.  Seated: Pat, Garry and Zu  Standing: TK, Tamaki, Marlene and Jim.

This is the Scribner home, in rural Bancroft, MI.  Pat and Garry have made so many great changes in the house and still working on finishing part of the basement.  Our motor home fit alongside the house, quite well.

View down a beautifully landscaped pathway, through the vine covered archway, and you can see the gazebo and the pond where the family spends a lot of time in the summers. 

The Scribner Family in front of the barn, on Garry's grandparent's farm.  They are gone, but the family still owns the land and many members of the family have built home here. 

This is a picture of our approach to cross the Mackinac Bridge.  We did see Mackinac Island from the bridge and the Grand Hotel stood out like a beacon!  The last time we crossed the bridge, we think it cost us $5.00 with the motor home and car, and today it was $14.00.  Fuel prices are still great, though!