Michelle has been back in Michigan since July (I think, she’ll let me know if I’m wrong haha), and I finally just got up to Cheboygan this past weekend. I was supposed to go a couple weeks ago but something cough-mydadscheduledbelttesting-cough came up.

This past weekend was probably better weather wise anyhow because if I can recall the weekend I was supposed to go was cold and possibly rainy.  The drive wasn’t as far as I thought it would be, it only took me about 3 hours and 45 minutes.

It was a quick overnight trip because of course I was swamped at work the week before preparing for a meeting with our VP on Monday.   And I had homework I needed to do before I met with my team virtually, which was a total waste of time, I might add.

It was nice to just hang out, I hadn’t been to Cheboygan in at least 7 years, maybe longer.  We found a cute little coffee shop and tried it out.  The pumpkin pie latte was a little watery but not unbearable.  Not like the one I got at Espresso Royale in Ann Arbor, it was disgusting!

I won’t mention that I beat Michelle and Curt at Trivial Pursuit.

On Michelle’s tour of Cheboygan we stopped at makeout beach, though I wasn’t aware at the time that’s what it was called. 

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When we moved last December I had left a couple boxes of pictures out in the garage because I was going to paint my office and I didn’t want to haul them downstairs. Chuck thought he was doing a good thing and cleaning up the garage…he threw at least 3 of my albums out. I try not to think about it because it hurts.

One of the best things about having such a close friend is that Michelle has almost all of the doubles of the pictures that disappeared. This is possibly why Chuck is still alive. To be fair he feels really horrible about it, he didn’t even look in the boxes, just assumed they were trash because I left them out there. He knows how much my pictures mean to me.

So when I left Michelle’s house I left with bags of photos I need to scan. It’s going to be a huge project but it’s fun to go through all of them. It’s funny, I found a picture from Christmas where we got each other complimenting sweaters. Both were blue and had a stripe on them. We still do things like that. I guess our minds still think alike. I brought Abby a toy and it was one of the first things Michelle had bought Abby. Luckily she was able to exchange it for something else.

It was a good trip, hopefully I will see them again soon!

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