General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/What did I learn today? Chat with friends old/new!, 1 by siliolegma

siliolegma wrote:
We have just ended our worst tourist event. The National Cherry Festival. Something like 500,000 visitors. Starts around the 4th and lasts a week. Blue Angels Air Show, parades. many entertainers on the bayside stages, Food, food, food. We were downstate for the beginning and just stuck close to home all week. Today we took the kids to the mouth of the Platte River a very popular tubing and kayaking site. River is slow, shallow and clear. When it finally reaches the mouth, it turns and parallels Lake Michigan for quite a ways before it empties in. River water is quite a bit warmer than the lake too but the kids had fun in each. River is in the foreground, Lake Michigan just beyond the sand bar.