Atlantic City, NJ

Well, we finally thought we were going to get to party but no Rita was all work, work, work. Okay she did drive by the casinos but it was like see there they are now back to work. Okay, okay we did go to the beach one morning and got to take a walk on the boardwalk but then work again.

Rita actually let us meet the owners, Christina and Kenny, of the Lucky 13 Cafe. They even wanted to have their picture taken with us!!!

They have very good, reasonable priced food, so stop by and say that Raff & Ginette sent you.

Trip to Lakeport, MI

Rita took us "camping" again. We went to Lakeport State Park in Michigan right on Lake Huron. We had a very large site with a nice view of the woods. There was a short walk down to the beach. The week before July 4th was quiet and few people on the beach.

We also drove up to Lexington a great little town on the Lake. There were ice cream shops, a great harbor and lots of shops to browse. We visited with some friends of Rita's at Wagner County Park just south of Harbor Beach. We then had dinner at Al's in Harbor Beach.

The next day we drove to Croswell and visited a park with a swinging bridge in a beautiful park along the river. The is a park with camping (tents only) just outside of town also along the river.

Rita had a nice relaxing vacation and she didn't even threaten us once.

Maramec Springs Park St James MO

Sorry for this late entry of our trip last month to Missouri.

We spent a lovely afternoon at this park. If you get the chance it's a great place for a walk or a picnic in the park that contains 1,860 acres of forest and fields and where the spring gushes about 100 million gallons of water a day. There is a trout hatchery and the ones that escape can be caught along the river. Some of the old Maramec Iron Works furnaces etc have been preserved.