{"id":14213,"date":"2016-10-27T08:38:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=14213"},"modified":"2016-10-27T08:38:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T13:38:46","slug":"the-rest-of-our-thursday-on-mackinac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/travel\/the-rest-of-our-thursday-on-mackinac\/","title":{"rendered":"the rest of our thursday on mackinac"},"content":{"rendered":"

after the delicious lunch buffet at the grand hotel, we spent some time walking all around the place. \u00a0they charge $10 a person just to enter the lobby, but it was well worth it. \u00a0we walked up to the top of the hotel to the cupola bar, which has splendid views.<\/p>\n

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i love the pool so much, and i hope to swim in it someday. \u00a0but 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? \u00a0but maybe it’s heated. \u00a0esther williams made a movie called “this time for keeps,” which was filmed at the grand, and she swam\u00a0in the pool.<\/p>\n

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can you see the horse and carriage painted on the bottom? \u00a0that’s my favorite part.<\/p>\n

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and in this view you can see the fabulous cottages along the west bluff that we’d walked past the day before.<\/p>\n

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it has a lovely chandelier.<\/p>\n

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many old photos line the hotel’s walls, and this is a good one – it’s the presidental yacht called the USS Sequoia. \u00a0i didn’t know there was a presidential yacht!<\/p>\n

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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! \u00a0we headed for sadie’s ice cream parlor and shared a big bowl of scrumptious coconut ice cream.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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it’s too bad they didn’t make reproductions of this poster, because i’d have bought it. \u00a0not that i have any free wall space at all in my house. \u00a0i love it that mackinac has been a popular tourist destination for so long.<\/p>\n

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this music festival was held back when the porch wasn’t bursting with geraniums.<\/p>\n

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i loved this winnie the pooh cartoon hanging in the bathroom. \u00a0the caption reads “an anxious moment – pooh and his friends watch for eyeore to float by.”<\/p>\n

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i like it that the audobon wine bar has hanging grapes, similar to the grapes we have on our screened porch.<\/p>\n

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when we got back to our Windermere, a huge boat was sailing\u00a0by.<\/p>\n

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lots of geese out in the park across from our hotel.<\/p>\n

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a lovedly day was had by all!<\/p>\n

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ok then,<\/p>\n

mrs. thursday morning hughes.<\/p>\n

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