Kalamazoo Pfizer family visiting on the boat

Gary Spies his wife Mari and their two children Ella and Henry visited us in South Haven. Gary was kind enough to deliver some packages that we had sent to him. One of the problems along the way is getting things sent. It can be done but we really have trouble figuring out where we will be when.

We enjoyed having The Spies on the boat. Henry was very interested in boat and Ella was very familiar with South Haven.

More of South Haven

You can see the Maritime Museum's version of bow thruster above. In front of our boat was a bar called Capt. Lou's and behind us across the water was another bar. Both had bands, Fri, Sat, and Sun nights. The bands played until 1:30 am and then the cigarette boats started up. We didn't get much sleep here. Sun night they had to move us to another slip because an 80 foot boat came in and took our slip.

South Haven, MI

42 24.353N

86 16.435W

As we move south on Lake Michigan, there is more competition for dockage especially since Labor Day is this weekend. We will be here in South Haven until Sunday or Monday since we could not find any thing for the weekend.

We passed the tall ship as we were coming into the breakwater--little did we know our slip is right next to it!

Grand Haven Marina

43 03.979N

86 14.059W

We enjoyed the town of Grand Haven--Ed was thrilled, we could walk to Home Depot! He got his fix. We met some lovely people doing the loop--a couple from New Zealand, one from Shelter Island, NY, one from Wallingford, CT, two boats from Maryland.

Claim to fame for Grand Haven are the dancing lights--they put on a show every night.

White Lake, Whitehall, MI

43 24.597N

86 21.160

Very quite area for a marina. Two towns are very close. Montague on one side and Whitehall on the other. Montague has the largest weather vane in the world, its claim to fame.

Star scoccer player

Meet our 10 year old grandson, Brennan Chuprinko. He played goalie for the first time in a game and his team won the tournament for his age group! One of the games he played goalie for half the time and then played on the field and made a goal. Way to go Brennan!

We now have Skype if anyone is interested.

Pentwater, MI

We are still in Pentwater. The weather has kept us here, winds and the storms. They had a small wooden boat parade. It was so funny. One of the guys was trying to get into one of the boats as it was getting ready for the parade. He almost fell into the water. You can see his leg and shoe in the top photo.