Rainy Days...

 

We often plan vacations that have a lot of outside activities, so we hold our breath when we check the weather. When I look back over our trips, I see that we have been blessed with much good weather to enjoy the things we planned to see. This trip was no exception, but we did have one extra-rainy day. You know what? We weren’t even sad about it. We’ve learned to find the value in mid-trip rest and in this case, we welcomed the rainy day as a chance to take naps, watch TV, talk, and take life slowly.

                Ryan was up early, so he went to Jave Joe’s, the coffee shop next to our hotel. He got coffee to go and delivered it to me in bed. What a wonderful way to start the day!

                The breakfast area for our hotel was actually the hotel restaurant, which was behind the main building. I was thankful the rain held off until after breakfast so we didn’t get soaked walking over to get food! Have I mentioned how good breakfast was at this place? So good.

                We rested all morning, and it was so good for the soul. We decided to drive back over the bridge to explore Mackinaw City and get some lunch over there. Goodness, I sure was glad this wasn’t bridge walk day!

                It was lightly raining, so we walked around the downtown Mackinaw City area with umbrellas and eventually settled on a lunch at a restaurant overlooking the lake. I failed to get a picture of the sign, so I forget the name of it. It wasn’t our favorite restaurant. The service wasn’t stellar, and that made us sad. The food was good, though. Lobster bisque and onion rings for Ryan and clam chowder and veggies for me. (We both brought part of it home.)

                We wanted coffee and dessert after lunch, but the only coffee shop we could find was Starbucks, and we wanted something local. Ryan found a shop that was open…for about five more minutes. We had to get ours to go (since they were closing) and enjoyed it in our vehicle instead. We hadn’t been off the sidewalk for more than 30 seconds when it started POURING.

                We spent the rest of the afternoon taking it easy. The rain eventually stopped, so we wandered around the beach area of our hotel. We hadn’t explored it yet, and it was our last day there, so we figured we should go.

                We cobbled together a dinner of leftovers and while we ate, we watched Somewhere in Time. I mentioned this a few days ago, so I’m circling back. If you aren’t familiar, this movie was filmed back in 1979 and starred Jane Seymore and Christopher Reeve. It was filmed on Mackinac Island and everyone always says you should watch it before you go. We forgot/ran out of time/didn’t, so we watched it on our rain day.

                Unpopular opinion here: I did not love the movie. Ryan liked it better than I did, but it wasn’t his favorite. I was a huge Dr. Quinn fan, so I had the worst time trying to see Jane Seymore as anyone other than Dr. Quinn. Ryan said he couldn’t see Christoper Reeve as anyone but Superman. We both agreed they did a great job in the movie, but we just struggled with our connection to them because we loved them as other characters. They had great chemistry, and we learned after some research that they were actually a couple at that time, so that probably helped with that!

                The movie is a time travel movie, and I hated the ending. Ryan felt like the ending was abrupt. I felt like it was abrupt and not what I hoped for. So there’s two hours we won’t get back.

                I’m so sorry if it’s your favorite movie. We just didn’t like it.

                We ended the day by packing up the bulk of our luggage so it would be ready the next day! And so ended our day of rest.