My wife and I left Wednesday evening (right after the hail storm) for a couple of days in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. What a beautiful area. We both were glad to go when it is green and not white. We visited Whitefish Point, known as a "Shipwreck Graveyard,"where the Edmund Fitzgreald sunk in the 1970's. Here we visited the museum and other buildings related to the Coast Guard Station and rescue center there. The The temperature was in the mid 60's and with the wind it was quite chilly. My devotion that mrning was from Hebrews 1:3 where the writer says that Jesus is superior to everything. Although Lake Superior is spectacular and upredictable and fierce it still is nothing compared to Jesus.
From there we went to Tahquamenon Falls. 
We visited both the lower and upper falls. These were spectacular. The sound of the water was relaxing. The water is a copper color but it is not from mineral ores like we thought but from decaying trees. IT was a great day as we enjoyed God's creation on the walks to the falls. We ate in the restaurant at the falls and had the mandatory "pastie." We ended a great day in Sault Saint Marie across the St. Mary's River from Canada.
We visited both the lower and upper falls. These were spectacular. The sound of the water was relaxing. The water is a copper color but it is not from mineral ores like we thought but from decaying trees. IT was a great day as we enjoyed God's creation on the walks to the falls. We ate in the restaurant at the falls and had the mandatory "pastie." We ended a great day in Sault Saint Marie across the St. Mary's River from Canada. On Friday we did the tourist things. We visited the Bushplane Museum in Sault Saint Marie, Ontario, and then took the boat ride through the Soo Locks. The Soo Locks opened trade from the ports on Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean by way or the other Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River. It was an experience to have the boat lifted 21 feet to the level of the river on the west side of the locks. The sun was bright and warm and it was a great day on the water, so relaxing that we both snoozed sometime during the cruise. We ate in two local restaurants, Antlers (hundreds of antlers on the wall and an experience in Yooper hospitality) and the Lockside Restaurant where we had fresh whitefish and it was wonderful. We ended the evening by going back to see the fireworks over the locks. It was not what we expected. They lit them one at a time for 30 minutes and as we left they apparently began the finale and what we expected but we missed it because we had already left.
It was a great time away and refreshed our souls.
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