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Jeremy's Michigan Road Trip Pictures

Scott, Tyler, and I headed to visit all of the Michigan Prout contingent during this weekend. We had all sorts of fun.

The Pictures

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On Friday night, we went to Kacky's place, went to eat at Damon's, and visited her school.

On Friday evening, after eating dinner and hearing Scott's formula for improving his walking, we descended upon Kacky's classroom to eat candy and leave amusing little notes for all her students.

In the school playground is a big, yellow, happy-face tube that we just had to get on "film." What's remarkable about this is that it was completely dark when I snapped this shot. Apparently the flash does a pretty good job.

Of course we had to try out the playground equipment...

Then Saturday came. We headed to Grand Haven to wander the shoreline, play on the pier, watch the kites, and generally enjoy the spectacular weather.

If I ever decide to move to Grand Haven, I'd love to live right on the lake in some cool apartments like these. They sit right on the entrance to the Grand Haven harbor.

Because I could get a fast little boat and cruise past my apartment all day long!

While wandering the walkway along the entrance to the Grand Haven harbor, we saw a really big ship headed out to the lake.

As it approached, we began to realize exactly how large it was.

As it got closer, we were able to get a better look at it.

And then we were able to read the side and figure out that it was probably hauling cement stuff.

The Saturday weather was great for hanging out on the beach. As you can see, there were a lot of people there.

From a more sparsely populated part of the beach, you can see the Grand Haven Pier in the distance. I make it a habit of walking the length of the pier whenever I got to Grand Haven.

Scott and Kacky, near the end of the Pier. (Yes, I know the lighting is bad. The sun was off to the southwest, so we should have done this the other way around. Oh well.)

And then I took my turn for a poorly lit picture. Better luck next time, I guess.

At the very end of the pier is the Lake (duh). Every once in a while a very big wave slams into the pier and sprays everyone in the area. [Point of Trivia: This is the place where I almost fell into Lake Michigan during the Summer of 1997 when Kacky, Anne, and I wandered out this way.]

There are even people dumb enough to try fishing there. They inevitably get very wet.

Standing near the end of the pier and look back toward the shore, it looks a lot like this.

A different view of the shoreline from the pier.

As the new Gap commercial says: Kacky's Rock.

The sky was filled with kites.

Some of the appeared to be controlled by the RVs that were lined up along the beach.

There was this really cool "stacked" kite.

Some of them flew a bit lower than the rest, which meant we could actually get a decent look at them.

And we all knew that Scott was cheap, right?

After all the fun in the sun, we headed back to Grand Rapids to call the Okemos folks. After some haggling and squirting, we decided to meet them at the Mongolian BBQ for dinner.

This picture, taken at about 75mph, came out pretty will when you realize that I was trying to drive and take the picture at the same time. The cars behind us didn't seem to be nearly as amused as we where.

Coming back from Grand Haven to Kacky's place, we ran across a little delay in traffic. That didn't get our spirits down. On the contrary, we used the opportunity to play frisbee on the highway, and Kacky decided to try and knock off Scott while she had the chance. Sadly, it didn't work. He lives.

After all of our Grand Rapids and Grand Haven shenanigans, we ventured east to Okemos to find Mike, Anne, and Mel. This was after our trip to Mongolian BBQ, so we're all kinda stuffed and sluggish. Some of us are event a bit red from all the fun in the sun.