August 6 - Newberry, MI

This morning we got up at 7:45 AM to drive 1.5 hours to Munising, MI to get our cruise at  the City Dock. We actually went for a buffet breakfast at a restaurant called Dog Patch. From my childhood, I remembered Dog Patch was in a comic strip my Mim & Dad read called "Li'L Abner" by Al Capp. I was right too, as it has the characters as decorations on the walls. I really have no idea what the series of comics were about, but I remember my Dad laughing so hard and passing the newspaper to my Mom so she could read it too! Both laughed out loud! This was the scenario every Sunday morning. After breakfast I was chomping at the bit since we had to be at the dock at 9:45 AM and we were waiting for the check and it was 9:35. When we parked there was already a mile long line on the dock of people. The crew steward said they were loading two boats and by the time we arrived at the boats the top deck was totally full on both boats so I went into the cabin of the first one and we were able to get a open window seat. After riding for 20 minutes out to the Pictured Rocks cliffs George and I were happy we were inside. The temperature outside was 55 and on the water with the wind even colder. We both put our sweatshirt and jacket on. Of course if I had, had a brain cell in action I would have asked if there were tickets available for the sunset cruise. The sun would have been shining on the cliffs making the colors pop more. At first they were darker from their own shadows. However as the sun came up the colored rocks were amazing. After that cruise we went to check out another cruise but the first available cruise was at 4 PM and we didn't want to hang around until then because of the dogs. George wanted to try another Pasty, so we asked Siri where the best Pasty's were and she was totally confused since she is obviously not a Yooper. So I ended up asking Google and it found Muldoon's Pasties & gifts. They looked smaller the my friend Becky's but they were just a different shape. So I bought two lol. Funny thing is I liked Becky's filling better but Muldoon's pastry covering the pasty was better. We ended up only eating one. Then we drove back to the campground and grabbed the dogs.