Picture Perfect Time-travlers

We started our weekend off with a bang...or at least an excellent pizza.  The venue was small and the booth was a tight fight for our tribe of six, but birthday pizza is what we needed and GNP had been on our radar for a while.  Only five of us made home, having left Sophia at the Y for an overnight lock in.  The early morning found us packed up and on the road heading north.  We hit a Culvers on the way for lunch and I was given my first senior citizen discount..the cashier actually added it because he felt bad our bill was so high and was trying to help out...just the cost of traveling with a tribe of six.  Our destination was Pictured rocks.  Luckily Amy had everyone pack their winter jackets because with a wind on the lake, enough to create3-4' waves, it was plenty cool as we enjoyed the perpetual beauty of the National lake shore and the beginnings of autumnal colors.  We had an early dinner (and poor at that) before heading to the hotel for some bone warming hot tub time and cool dips in the pool.  The pool deck was almost entirely ours and made a perfect place for Amy's birthday cake and gifts.  We slept hard and eat a filling breakfast before hitting some of the local antique and gifts shops and then doing a short hike to Wagner falls and then a longer hike towards Chapel rock.  The crisp air was perfect for a walk in the woods.  We played a couple of rounds of trivia each sharing tid-bits they had learned on the boat or interesting points they remembered from the trip thus far, like we made four wrong turns before time traveling back home late sunday afternoon.  The kids were getting a kick out of the changing time zones and we laughed that we were time travelers.  The leaves change, the time changes but out adventuring fun together is quite constant.