Our Trip Up North

Once Papa Redd had some vacation time we decided we would all head up to the upper pennisula of michigan. We didn't have any ideas of where we would stay or what exactly we would be doing. All we knew is that we wanted to take the sail boat up north and experience the U.P. On Friday the kids were packing all our stuff up, while mom and dad went to fill the car up at the local MOBILE station. Mom went in for a diet coke and started a friendly conversation with the attendent. He asked what we were doing that weekend. Mom mentioned going up north, but not really knowing where to stay. The attendent offered his house in Hessel Bay. Well we ended up staying at the McPeak's home in Hessel. Can you believe we stayed at the home of complete strangers. The house ended up being better than we could have found searching the internet. The McPeak's home is found in Hessel Bay, home of the antique wooden boat show held every August. It was beautiful! The home sits on Lake Huron across from the famous Mackinac Island. We even had our own beach and Papa Redd got to anchor his sail boat in the backyard.