Silver Beach!

Can you handle one more peek at Michigan? :)

I wanted to tell you about the end of our trip! After we left the dunes, we drove back into St. Joseph to enjoy lunch at Silver Beach Pizza. We'd eaten there the last time we visited town, but it was MUCH less populated that time. (Frigid days don't draw crowds to the beach.) So our favorite thing about this time was getting to experience it in the height of summer!

I forgot to show you this picture the other day when I talked about watching sunset at the beach. It's a panoramic I took overlooking the lake, but Silver Beach Pizza is in this picture, so I'll include it now.

And here is the daytime view:

I was surprised how quickly they got us in; we were told there would be a 20 minute wait, but it was more like 5! And they seated us right by one of the open garage doors overlooking the train tracks, splash pad, and the water beyond that!

We were pretty gross looking from our morning of hiking, but we thoroughly enjoyed our seat and our lunch!! (The pizza made four meals for us!0

After lunch, Ryan wanted to pose with the photo opps outside, and then we went to stash our pizza.

We walked around town a bit, found sugar cookies for a dollar each (YAY!) and some souvenirs.

And then we hung out on the beach for a while! It was really hot out there! We didn't have umbrellas or anything, so we didn't stay too long.

 We dipped our toes in the water just to cool off. It actually helped quite a bit!

 BUT IT WAS SO COLD!

After we left the beach, we headed back home and Ryan had just enough daylight left to squeeze in a quick yard mowing while I unpacked and got us settled back in.

It was a great little getaway, and we were so grateful for it.