"Yes Michigan, the feeling forever!"

Remember those commercials from the 80's? I can still hear the jingle in my head "Yes Michigan, the feeling forever". It's almost as memorable as the jumping Toyota or the Eagle Man commercials... but I digress.

A few weekends ago Nick, Maddie and I took a little trip to Holland Michigan for a nice weekend away. We stayed in a great hotel and just had some relaxation time together.

As the name Holland suggests, there is a large Dutch population there so everywhere you turn there is a windmill or tulip.

On the way home we stopped at the Warren Dunes and did a little hiking. The hiking started out tame... a nice flat walk in the woods.

Then we came to a dune and thought it might be fun to climb one while we were there, so we did. Here we are at the top. Nice views, stopped for a break.

Whoa! Look at that belly! You climbed a dune with that thing?

Why yes I did!

Then we climbed down and walked some more through the nice flat, cool woods. The the realization hit us... how do we get back to our car? Do we really have to climb 7,000 more dunes in the hot sun to get to it? (7,000 may be a slight exaggeration). Great... here we go. At least we got some nice pictures out of it.

We get to our last dune and Nick assures me that if we just climb up this huge one our car will be just on the other side of it. Thank goodness he was right. At this point even Maddie looked tired.

You want me to go down this now?

Overall it was a nice weekend and it was wonderful to get away with the hubby (and puppy). Next time though, not so many dunes while 7 months pregnant. Let's just say we all slept well that night.