We all slept until almost 8am our time today. We had sausage and english muffins for breakfast out at the picnic table - no bugs! After that we tried to make reservations at the Grand Haven State Park but it and three parks north of it were all booked for tonight. We finally found one opening at Silver Lake State Park. After all of that drama we did our Bible study and packed up the camper one more time.
We arrived at the Sleeping Bear Visitor Center around noon. After stamping our passport book and purchasing a couple of items we headed for the fair at Port Oneida Historic District. We went through a town called Glen Haven that had a lake that was incredible. It looked like the Caribbean - the water was only two to three feet deep for at least one hundred yards and it was a beautiful color.
Once we arrived to the fair, there were six sights and we visited four of them. We drove pass the other two. We started at Dechow Farm. There we saw old time machines like a hay baler and grinders. We also so a "modern" milk separator. There were rope makers and weavers. There was a tour of an old barn by rangers. We saw work horses and two oxen.
After that we drove to Olsen Farm. There we saw quilting and Scott got ice cream and ate a cracker with homemade butter. Hannah also watched a cooking demo on how to make cabbage dressing. It was weird.
Then we headed to the Kelderhouse Farm where there was a "civil war encampment" we decided not to stop because we could see the entire unimpressive display from the road since we were stuck behind the elusive shuttle bus. We went on to the Burfiend Barn where Scott pounded a homemade peg in the wrong one so we didn't get it because it was ruined. Then we watched a guy make glass beads for about an hour. Ann talked him into selling her some supplies so that she and Hannah could try to do it. He sold us the glass rods and the welding rods dipped in bead lube. Now we need to buy some of that and a ceramic blanket. Then attach a torch to a board with a metal L bracket and hose clamp. We need a sheet of metal for under the area we work. While Scott was waiting for us he bought a big bag of kettle corn. Then Hannah made a rope out of baling twine and we sat and listened to a band (guitar, violin, accordion, and viola).
Back in the truck, we headed for the last place Thoreson Farm where we saw an old button collection, a blacksmith program, a weaver, a painter, and a clay pitcher making demonstration. Then we saw some ponies.
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