Dunes and Dreams

That was the name of our cute little cabin that we rented at Silver Lake. As the weather was kinda cold and rainy the rest of our time, we got to spend a bit of time in our cabin(i got to catch up with quite a bit of sleep that i was missing!!!)

But in the evening, the skies cleared a little and we jetted out to enjoy the few moments of dry weather and check out the sights around us. Alan found a shuffle board game at the club house and we got a quite competitive game of shuffle board game!!

On our last day, the sun finally decided to shine and we managed to get on one of the sand dune buggy rides. It was a fun ride for the entire family.

Tyler and Alan doing a round of shuffleboard

Cody was quite happy to just watch

Alan feeling the pressure to perform

A nice sign of the area

Silver Lake with the sand dunes in the background

You can tell, but it was crazy windy

You learn to be quite creative with your cooking.. steak and mushroom for dinner!!

Kids watching tv in their room

They were quite willing to help to clean up their sand

Our cute little cabin

The kids had fun in the sandbox 

I'm going to jump

Yee haw!!!

Picture of our cabin from the outside

Our sand dune buggy

We will conquer the sand dunes!!!

We've shrunk??

All ready to go!!

Wheee!!!!

Very exciting and beautiful views

At Lake Michigan

What do you mean this is not the sea??

Family pic

Our buggy

Whooaa!!! 

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