flashback: mackinac island

back in the states, in Michigan, there is a small island that sits between the lower peninsula and the upper peninsula. the only way to get there is by boat. and once you arrive you have three choices: horse, bike, or foot. the water is cold and the shores are rocky, but the views are magnificent.

this past July, before Husband and I moved to Taiwan, we stayed there for a week with his family. I hadn't been since I was 12. but even though I ate a lot less fudge on this trip, I still loved biking around the island, building rock piles on the shore, and hiking to Arch Rock. we also discovered that Mission Point has Angry Orchard cider on tap, and the Seabiscuit Cafe does a mean molasses bourbon bacon.

I am just now [I know, I know] getting around to editing the last of the photos and thought I would share. we have our first visitor coming this weekend - one of Husband's old classmates from undergrad - so I'm sure I'll be back next week with more pictures and stories.

happy weekend!

a few incredible things

life here? is kindof incredible. our daily routine that we've settled into, making dinner every night, feeling like a weight has been lifted, enjoying marriage like newlyweds all over again, finding vermouth and being able to make martinis... 

even just the fact that we are here, really here, and have been here for nearly two months? is incredible.  

and because I'm going to be using that word a lot in this post, I've gone and looked up the definition for you:

in·cred·i·ble: so extraordinary as to seem impossible.

oh, and it fits.

that I made it through my first rosetta stone Mandarin lesson? incredible.

that I've become the kind of person who hangs their laundry out to dry in the sun? incredible.

that I have free time every day I can use to create? write, draw, paint, take photos? incredible.

that there are bananas in my backyard? seriously. BANANAS.

incredible.