Off we go to Charlevoix!

After a day of doing pretty much nothing, we were ready to head out.  We heard about a little town further north on the lake that had houses made of stone with cedar shingled roofs that look like mushrooms.  Gotta see this right?

On arrival in

we had to find a restroom and then a restaurant...in that order.  After looking around a bit, we decided on

this one.  They had wall-eye and perch on the menu so we both ordered the wall-eye dinner.  The place was really noisy.  We happened to be seated in an area with 8 men golfers who liked to all talk at once.  One just turned 59, he was the oldest, another was 57, then several were 55 and the youngest was 52.  They didn't like hole #17.  Nor did they like pillows on the bed at home.  One of them actually knew he had 10....  I learned more about these complete strangers than I wanted too, that's for sure.  We were also lucky to have 6 kids and 4 adults in the same area.  We had to shout to hear each other.  Good Grief!

The fish finally came and when the men were served a bit later, the noise level dropped noticeably.  The wall-eye was good and I took a piece home with a pile of fries.  Don't know if its edible as it sat in the truck as we wandered the downtown.

There is a beautiful harbor and marina, where we tried taking a picture of ourselves.  An art fair happened to be harbor side, so I had to check it out.  I found a pretty silver bracelet that I couldn't live without :-)

There was also an outdoor amphitheater where we sat and had some MooMers ice cream that advertises itself as the world's best.  Not true, but good.

Neat old clock, one of those details I like.
The downtown main street, aptly named Bridge St, was busy.  Lots and lots of people having a good time.  It was nice.

Taken from the bridge on Bridge St.

 We wanted to see the mushroom houses, so went on the search.  Earl Young was the mastermind behind these houses and many more built with local stone.

Pretty cool, eh?  You can click on any of these photos to enlarge them.

Some beautiful homes in the neighborhood.  After we high tailed it back to the truck, we headed back 'home'. 
I've been taking these pics with my phone camera and transferring to my computer for the blog.  Today however, they wouldn't transfer.  I had to upload them to Picasa and then download them to the blog!  So next time I'll haul out my real camera to make life easier.

The National Cherry Festival started today in Traverse City, that's why we headed out of town.  We might check it out mid-week when hopefully it won't be so crowded.

That's it for today.  Nice day with my beau in Charlevoix :-)