Hannah and Janet made sausage, egg, and cheese sandwiches in the morning. Then we did our Bible study. After that we picked up Janet and went to explore the park. We went to the ranger station and Hannah got another trading card and a new book about the Apostle Islands. We played a tracks matching game and stamped our Passport books. A German New Yorker VIP took us down the trail to another VIP for the fishery tour. Susan and her husband go to a different park each summer to volunteer. They get to live on the campground for free of the entire summer if they volunteer four days a week. She gave us a tour of the icehouse, where ice was stored for the summer, the herring shed where fish were filleted and salted and stored to be shipped out. Then we went up the hill past the ice sled into a workshop where they invented cool gadgets to increase efficiency and where they maintained and repaired their nets. After the tour, we talked to Susan for a while. She and husband were last stationed on the west side of the Rocky Mountains where moose were beginning to herd - this is very unusual bc moose are usually solitary animals. She also talked about a set of twins that she watched grow up that summer.
After that we packed up and started off to Pictured Rocks. We had to retrace our steps back toward Ashton, Wisconsin. Stopped in Washburn (a really cute little town) for drinks and ice. When we hit Ashton, we saw the "Ashland Quilts and Fabrics" store so we stopped. While we were in the store (pretty expensive), Scott took pictures of an eagle that was flying on Lake Superior. It was cool because we could actually see the other side of the lake where we had just been. After that we were on the road again. Then we were in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We realized we would not make Pictured Rocks like planned so we stopped at a National Forest Ranger Station in Kenton, Michigan. They were closed but we talked to a really nice ranger who wasn't really very helpful. Janet (and Scott tried) took a half hour nap while Hannah and Ann talked to Nana and tried to make reservations at a campground without much success. The ranger did tell us that there were moose all over the place and pretty much guaranteed we would see a moose (we never saw one - not for lack of trying). We were about an hour outside of Marquette when Ann decided she couldn't set up the camper again so she started calling about hotel reservations. She found a room at the Days Inn in Marquette.
When we arrived we checked out the room. It was a double queen suite. The hotel had a pool and two hot tubs (one for kids). We ate dinner at Perkins and said goodnight to Janet who slept in her camper. Scott watched TV while Hannah and Ann headed to the pool. About five minutes of awesomeness relaxation, a really loud siren went off two times. They stayed in the hot tub until Hannah got a call from Janet - standing in the parking lot in her pajamas wondering what to do. We told her to go back to bed. Then two fire trucks came from a road across the street. One went one direction and the other went the other direction - we were a bit perplexed. No one said anything to us so we just stayed at the pool. We did hot tub then pool then hot tub then Hannah did the pool one more time.
When we got upstairs we caught up on internet stuff and watched Duck Dynasty. Ann made everyone go to bed about 10pm. The hotel turned out to be a really nice grace gift from God.
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