Grand Marais - - Again

To celebrate Robert's birthday,

we went back to Grand Marais

in the U.P.

As we were out looking around town, we saw...

So off we went --

lots of cute ideas and gorgeous flowers

At our last stop, I noticed the lady had some very cool rocks in her garden.

So I asked her about them and she said she had collected all of them in the area.

She said the boardwalk was a good place for collecting ---

but a VERY good place was about 8 miles down the road.

Soooo

off we went - down a very bumpy back road

actually it was 10 miles

THEN we had to walk to the water.

We traipsed up hills and down hills

and finally got a glimpse of

that beautiful blue water up yonder ...

YEP - we found lots of very cool rocks.....

BUT so far back to the car..

we had to pick and choose

which ones we would lug

up those hills.... and down those hills.....

On the ride back to town,

Bob asked if I wanted to check out the other "rock spot"

ABSOLUTELY!!!

Ahhh this place was a mere

hop skip and a jump from the car! 

The rocks were smaller  -

but I sure had fun playing in the water

while hunting them. 

The day flew by -

soon it was time for another

delicious whitefish dinner

and another gorgeous light show in the sky...