Our summer calendar is filling up fast, so we decided to take a quick family get away while we had the chance. I checked hotel prices through HotWire for some area cities and went with a 3 star hotel in Grand Rapids that we got for $36 a night. This was an amazing bargain. I checked the hotel's website and the lowest price for one night was $120. The hotel ended up being an all-suites Holiday Inn Express with a nice breakfast included.
We spent one afternoon at Sagutuck Dunes State Park, on Lake Michigan.
Landen had lots of fun playing in the sand. We did not have so much fun battling the beetles and biting flies at the beach though. We also did not have so much fun getting there because we took a 25 mile wrong turn, then got in an hour long traffic jam.
Makenna swam the most at the beach. It was cold water.
The kids loved the pool at the hotel.
Kylee and Makenna are sitting in a bowl of "Daddy's favorite cereal."
I liked the Grand Rapids Public Museum better than the Indianapolis Children's Museum. The exhibits were more aesthetically pleasing, it wasn't crowded and it only cost $19 for our family of five to enter - due to their summer special prices. We spent about four and a half hours touring the museum at a leisurely place. I would describe it as a science / history museum with an emphasis on history and a focus on how people lived in the early days of Grand Rapids, the late 1800s.
Kylee standing in front of a section of the Berlin Wall. In the exhibit photo just to Kylee's left, the section is photographed at Checkpoint Charlie when the wall started coming down.
There's no extra charge to ride the museum's carousel. We rode it three times.
Kylee and Makenna in Yesterdog. We all agreed, "That was a good dog."
We took one of the seats out of our van for the trip. It worked out pretty well, as this picture from our trip home shows.
We spent one afternoon at Sagutuck Dunes State Park, on Lake Michigan.
Landen had lots of fun playing in the sand. We did not have so much fun battling the beetles and biting flies at the beach though. We also did not have so much fun getting there because we took a 25 mile wrong turn, then got in an hour long traffic jam.
Makenna swam the most at the beach. It was cold water.
The kids loved the pool at the hotel.
Kylee and Makenna are sitting in a bowl of "Daddy's favorite cereal."
I liked the Grand Rapids Public Museum better than the Indianapolis Children's Museum. The exhibits were more aesthetically pleasing, it wasn't crowded and it only cost $19 for our family of five to enter - due to their summer special prices. We spent about four and a half hours touring the museum at a leisurely place. I would describe it as a science / history museum with an emphasis on history and a focus on how people lived in the early days of Grand Rapids, the late 1800s.
Kylee standing in front of a section of the Berlin Wall. In the exhibit photo just to Kylee's left, the section is photographed at Checkpoint Charlie when the wall started coming down.
There's no extra charge to ride the museum's carousel. We rode it three times.
Kylee and Makenna in Yesterdog. We all agreed, "That was a good dog."
We took one of the seats out of our van for the trip. It worked out pretty well, as this picture from our trip home shows.
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