Michigan City is to Indiana: as: Kansas City is to Missouri

On Saturday evening, Eric and I got in the car and drove north. He had seen a truck at a dealership and wanted to check it out (they were asking way too much) but we kept driving anyway and ended up finding our way to Michigan City, which is in Indiana not Michigan, which is right on Lake Michigan and has a huge port and marina with lots of boats. We decided to eat at this restaurant which had a huge outside deck as you can see in the picture of Eric. The weather was great and it made me wish we had a boat; there were plenty of people who had obviously been out on theirs all day long. It also made me miss all of our friends in Manhattan who we love to go to the lake with!

With our bellies full we decided to take a walk down to the marina and check out the boats. (And if I would have known we were going to go out in public I would have put my contacts in and dressed up a little better!)

There were quite a few sailboats that looked like fun (and is something I want to do sometime soon that I get an opportunity) and many HUGE boats that probably cost more than our house! Eric and I had a few picked out...most of his had fishing poles on the back.

Here we are waiting for the road to go back down! There was a whole line of boats waiting to go through to dock. There were some condos here where people could dock their boats and walk up to their house. However, every time the bridge raised a bell would go off that would drive me insane. Eric and I both decided the lure of having a place so close to the lake would be lost with the annoying sound of the bell all day long!