after the delicious lunch buffet at the grand hotel, we spent some time walking all around the place. they charge $10 a person just to enter the lobby, but it was well worth it. we walked up to the top of the hotel to the cupola bar, which has splendid views.
i love the pool so much, and i hope to swim in it someday. but hmm, maybe that won’t ever happen, because i’d rather be on mackinac in the fall, and it’s probably a bit chilly by then? but maybe it’s heated. esther williams made a movie called “this time for keeps,” which was filmed at the grand, and she swam in the pool.
can you see the horse and carriage painted on the bottom? that’s my favorite part.
and in this view you can see the fabulous cottages along the west bluff that we’d walked past the day before.
it has a lovely chandelier.
many old photos line the hotel’s walls, and this is a good one – it’s the presidental yacht called the USS Sequoia. i didn’t know there was a presidential yacht!
we’d just the large and delicious lunch buffet, but kevin didn’t want to eat too much so his blood sugar wouldn’t skyrocket…so after we walked around a bit, he said he needed to eat something! we headed for sadie’s ice cream parlor and shared a big bowl of scrumptious coconut ice cream.
it was named after the scottish terrier sadie, and i took this picture of the story of her, but i realize it’s a little hard to read – sadie is the only dog to have won the triple crown of dogs shows in america.
it’s too bad they didn’t make reproductions of this poster, because i’d have bought it. not that i have any free wall space at all in my house. i love it that mackinac has been a popular tourist destination for so long.
this music festival was held back when the porch wasn’t bursting with geraniums.
i loved this winnie the pooh cartoon hanging in the bathroom. the caption reads “an anxious moment – pooh and his friends watch for eyeore to float by.”
i like it that the audobon wine bar has hanging grapes, similar to the grapes we have on our screened porch.
when we got back to our Windermere, a huge boat was sailing by.
lots of geese out in the park across from our hotel.
a lovedly day was had by all!
ok then,
mrs. thursday morning hughes.