We made it to Crystal Lake!

Yesterday we made our way from home, down to LAX, flew to Chicago, and spent the night in a hotel.  Today we got up too early (aren't the kids still suppose to be on California time??) and drove to the cottage on Crystal Lake (after loading up on food at the grocery store where the checker knew that Grandma was expecting us, it is a small town!).  We stopped in Holland for lunch and to try and see lake Michigan but we never did get a good view of it.  It is fairly normal for our kids that when they see water they are drawn to go in as quickly as possible (at least Anna and Olivier).  And in they went!  

The kids fished with Uncle Bill when he arrived just after 4:30 p.m.  After an easy dinner of hamburgers and hotdogs, Matt joined the kids on the dock.  At some point the power went out (it came back up just before 9 p.m.).

 And we all had a few s'mores.

 Nice first day at the cottage!