Silver Lake with the Andrews

One of the highlights of the trip is to spend some time at the beautiful sand dunes of Michigan so that the kids can have some fun with sand and water. Silver Lake was recommended by the Andrews, so we made plans to go there for 2-3 days.

The Andrews were nice enough to put away some time amid their very busy schedule to come spend a day with us.

We had fun exploring the sand dunes which was a blast for the kids. Tyler especially loved it!! They climbed the sand dunes quite happily without any whining!! Tyler ran down the dunes whenever he could and slid down the other times.

We were very lucky to have had explored the dunes at that time because it turned out that was a small window of good weather during our entire stay. As we were heading back, the weather started to turn and some dark clouds began to move in. We barely got into the the car and the sky just opened and poured!!! And it continued for the next 24 hrs with a few flashes of sunshine occasionally!

Since it was rainy the next morning, we played Taboo which was very entertaining and as the sun peeked out for a few minutes, we managed to rush out for a quick visit to the light house before the Andrews left us. The light house was closed for the day due to the crazy wind but we were very lucky that the light house keeper were there and felt sorry for us and snuck us in. The kids enjoyed climbing the spiral staircase all the way up and we were treated to a spectacular view.

Ok the pictures are not in order and it's too much of a pain to move them..

On our way back to the car, check out the doom and gloom clouds

Ken cutting up a watermelon for dinner

Tacos dinner

The light house

Group picture before the Andrews' departure

Tyler sliding down the slope

It's like a real desert

Feels funny on my feet!!!

Water... water....

View of the sand dunes

Climbing up a ridge

Wheeeee!!!

Run....!!!!!!

I run too!!!

Those crazy people climbing another ridge!!!

Straddling the ridge lines

Nearly to the top!

View from the top

Time to relax

Tyler exploring the slopes

I was trying to convince him to roll down

Making our way down to the river.. you know that's actually AWAY from the car!!!

It's like a little oasis!!!

Hiding from the wind

Top of the light house

Beautiful view of Lake Michigan

Family picture

Alan's must-do pose

It's a postcard perfect view