When we got to the island, we took a horse-drawn taxi ride to the hotel. It was $4 each for the ride.
We stayed at the Mission Point Resort Wednesday night and Thursday night.
The view from our room was so incredible!
It was a WONDERFUL stay!! The only negatives we could find was that it was a little outdated and there was no air conditioning. Apparently there aren't many places on the island that do have air conditioning. Good to know so I won't come back in mid-August! The weather was beautiful the entire time we were there - the best of the summer the locals said!
That evening, we checked in, then walked downtown to find supper at Three Sons Sarducci. It was good food, but we wish we had walked a bit further and found a better atmosphere for the price. We paid around $20 for spaghetti and veggie lasagna. After supper, we walked down the street further and enjoyed the beautiful sunset over the Mackinac Bridge!
We were getting kinda tired after that, so we walked back to Mission Point (about 10 minutes) and sat in the cozy lobby area on the couch by the fireplace for a good hour before heading to bed.
We lunched at Goodfellows in town, which had fantastic wings - comparable to my favorite place in Sioux Falls, SD! After lunch, we relaxed after lunch a bit before going on a carriage ride around the island. It was nice to just sit there and let the horses do all the work for a couple hours, and also neat to hear about the history of the island, as well as a few made-up stories by the carriage driver (whatever they're called). After the carriage ride, we stopped at Kilwin's for some ice cream, then headed back near the hotel, where we sat in the adirondak chairs facing the shoreline for a couple hours.
When we were good and rested, we walked to the Bistro on the Green for supper. Mark had a good bacon burger while I had a Southwest Chicken Sandwich. Both were delicious! We thought about put-putting, but decided to save it for the next day, as it was getting dark already, and the course had no lights.
Instead, we headed back up to the lodge to sit by the fireplace for an hour or so - Mark computering-it-up, Amy plugging away at her novel, before heading to bed again.
We slept in again (this is becoming a trend, I think lol), then checked out around 10am, and headed down to sit on the adirondak chairs down on the green for an hour before we decided to play that game of mini-golf we had passed on the night before. The course was still pretty damp, but we had fun anyway. We also were very excited to have a real crane (the bird) hanging out on the course with us. We had the paparazzi on our trail, or rather the crane's trail lol
After golfing, we made our way down to Mary's Bistro for lunch, and had a great lunch on the deck by the docks, eating and filling out a few postcards. After lunch, we mailed the postcards, then slowly made our way up, past the Missionary Bark Chapel, to Fort Mackinac. We made it up just in time for the canon firing demonstration, and continued to explore around a bit, also taking in a gun firing demonstration. Such an interesting place, but our feet were certainly dragging, and we were feeling the need for a nap, so we finished up seeing what we wanted to see, and then headed back down the island to catch a ferry over to the mainland - Mackinaw City - for the night. We relaxed for a while, then headed downtown to Cunningham's for a yummy spaghetti supper before cashing in early - we needed our rest for the race!
We both did well on the race (I finished in 87:57, Mark in 80:19), and I ran back quick to get the camera from the locker so we could have some sort of proof that we actually ran the race lol We downed about half a dozen oranges between the two of us, as well as a handful of bananas and quite a bit of water lol Hey - we'd just ran 8 miles with only a nutri-grain bar in our tums!!
By the time I got back and we found our times in the hotel activity center (and freshening up secretly in the Mission Point restrooms), we walked downtown (again) and had lunch at the Irish Pub - Mark having a chicken sandwich and I a wrap. I wasn't feeling very well (dehydrated and sleep-deprived), so after lunch, we walked to the nearby park and attempted a nap on the lawn, making sure to pick a spot without any bird poo, since the seagulls were abundant.
After an hour or so, we walked down to Kilwin's for another Mackinac Island Mud Fudge cone and relaxed in the little shopping center around the corner. When I finally started feeling more back to normal, we found a bike rental place right next to the ferry dock and rented a couple bikes. We took a nice, relaxing bike ride around the island before catching the ferry back to the mainland.
Mackinac Island was amazing and wonderful! Next time we go back, I'd probably not go there and plan to run a race around the island, as we didn't do as much as we would have liked to because we were taking it easy before the race. Wonderful trip :)
