Soo Locks

Saturday -- today with Grandma and Grandpa staying on the boat, we took a car ride up to the Soo Locks in Sault. Ste Marie. When we got there there was a 1000 foot ship going through the locks coming out of Lake Superior. It was a very nice trip up there and it was fun to see the ships coming through the locks.

In the evening, we celebrated Gaye's 39th birthday with Grandma and Grandpa on the boat and then crossed the Mackinaw Bridge to Mackinaw City for a birthday meal. I've been noticing that Gaye is starting to slow down in her "older" age -- we now run together and we had once been running 5, 6, 7, or 8 mile runs and now she will only do a 4 or 5 miler. Pretty soon we'll be doing the "power walking".

Again, it was great to have Grandma and Grandpa on the boat for a couple of days and very very nice of them to take time out of their retirement to taxi Gaye and Aaron to the boat. This is the 2nd time this trip and it helped out greatly with extending how much cruising we could do.