Michigan Trip: Part 4-Mackinac City and Mackinac Island

We packed up our camper, and from Harrison, headed to Mackinac City! As a side-note, Mackinac is prononunced Mackinaw. The spellings used to be interchangable, but Joelle and I noticed that on the mainland, the name of the city is spelled with a "w" at the end, while on the island, it is spelled with a "c" at the end of the word.

We got to Mackinaw City just in time for dinner and went straight to Scalawags to get our fried white fish, hush-puppies, and fries. I'm not a huge fish eater, but occasionally I will eat a good mild fish, well let me tell you, this white fish at Scalawags was excellent. The Tigers game was on TV while we were eating, so we chatted and watched the game. After our delicious dinner we went shopping in all of the neat stores around town. And of course, we had to get our fudge! Mackinac-whether the island or the mainland city-is well-known for their fudge. I personally think that it's some of the best fudge around. We got: regular chocolate, German Chocolate, Choc. Pecan, Raspberry, and Claw (which had cashews and caramel). Yummy!We headed back to the campground and prepared to go to the island the next morning.

The next morning we woke up to go to breakfast at the Pancake Chef (I thought it was awesome that the restaurant has such a huge emphasis on pancakes, as I am obsessed with pancakes). I got pancakes with Michigan cherries and whipped topping. Delish. After, we headed to the ferry. In 18 minutes we docked on Mackinac Island and we were ready to start our adventure on the island.

For anybody that hasn't been before, it is a beautiful island with only bikes and horse carriages for transportation (and snow-mobiles for the residents in the winter). The island is located in Lake Huron. The houses are all beautiful and colorful! But there are flowers EVERYWHERE and it's just a gorgeous place to be. It's seriously one of my favorite places ever.

We shopped and bought jewelry and snacked (and praise the Lord! I finally had my Starbucks) and had a fantastic time. My favorite part was going to the museum. I love art, so to see art that was special to the island made me love it even more. And to celebrate the Grand Hotels 125th Anniversary, they had a special exhibit and included local artists artwork. It was all beautiful and Joelle and I wanted all of it! (I hope to post some more pictures on here once I've uploaded them onto my computer).

Some day, I hope you will go and visit beautiful Mackinaw City and Mackinac Island...I really think you'll enjoy it!

Here's the view (and Grandpa's head) while sitting in front of the art museum.

Mackinac Island on Dwellable