I've been out in Greenbush, Michigan since Friday. For those of you that aren't familiar with our Great Lakes, it's pretty close to going to the ocean. Except it's not salt water and freezing cold. My folks have a place right on the beach. Every morning I look out the window when I get up and see the lake. When I have my breakfast, I'm sitting in front of a huge picture window and look at the lake. It's great. I've come here almost every summer of my life, give or take a few years here and there. I've spent the last few days jet skiing, tubing, swimming, lounging in the sun... you get the picture. Rough life. I actually decided to partake in some real "excercise" and went for a bike ride across the road along Cedar Lake today with my mom and my Aunt Judy. One thing that's been most interesting is that for some reason this trip really made me think of coming here when I was little. Maybe it's because my cousin's second kid is about to turn 1 and I'm getting married.. who knows. All I know is that I have some great memories up here and one thing I realized today while I was battling the flies that seem only to come out when there is a west wind is that there are some things that literally have not changed as long as I can remember, and then there are some things that have completely. The same volleyball net hangs in the same place. I remember playing volleyball with all of the cousins and aunts and uncles. The same lady lives next door- Sandy. She just celebrated her 70th birthday over the weekend. Some of the same toys that I played with were being played with this weekend by my cousin Kelly's son Rory. So it's comforting but also made me realize that things change everyday. Sometimes I don't really notice change because I'm busy paying attention to the things that are the same. Maybe it's because I've had so much change in my life in the past 9 months that hanging on to those things that aren't different have kept me from losing my shit. Who knows. Just made me think about stuff.
Anyhoo--
We had a private fireworks show. The neighbors "kids" showed up with probably $500 worth of fireworks hauled in from Ohio. It was great. Hour long of profressional fireworks just down at the watersedge, while we sat in chairs on the porch and watched. We used to do bottle rockets out of Coke bottles in almost the very same spot back in the day. This evening we had a family BBQ. Aunts, uncles, cousins all gathered around one single table for a great meal. We were going to go in the boat south to Oscoda to watch the fireworks from the water, but the wind picked up and the temperature dropped and you can't trust a west wind. So, my mom and I watched movies, talked to my sister on the phone.
I would post up pictures but I will admit I haven't taken any. Will get on that tomorrow. Hope everyone had a fantastic fourth of July!
