Day 20: Lake Michigan and Cherries

Timber Ridge is a pretty cool campground with lots of activities that the boys are really enjoying. The morning started off with them biking on the trails and checking out the pickleball and manmade lake.

After a super-sleepy start and yummy breakfast we headed out to check out more of Traverse City. First stop was the Mission Point lighthouse at the tip of the peninsula in Traverse Bay. This stop was a last-minute add-on to our planned drive and beat all expectations. The lighthouse was adorable, and the water into Lake Michigan was super shallow for several hundred yards.

We also have a thing for 45th parallels, which coincidentally passes right by the lighthouse. We’d previously visited the north one in Yellowstone and the south one in New Zealand.

Kelly grew up with cherry trees at her house, but the rest of the family had not picked cherries before, so we thought it’d be the perfect activity in the self-proclaimed cherry capital of the USA.

Cooper figured out the very freshest cherry would be to eat it directly from the tree.

Once we returned, the boys were very eager to play on the inflatables in the manmade lake named “Just In Timber Lake”. Their playing looked like professional wrestling on the trampoline inflatable, which they loved and continued for several hours. Rob and Kelly sat on the beach watching them, while relaxing and enjoying a beer.

And the most random way to wrap up the evening, while we were eating our campfire hotdogs and s’mores, a crew with a brand-new Winnebago Thrive trailer set up in the site next to us for a photo and video shoot.