Sleeping Bear Dunes...Again

On Friday (6/17), we went hiking at Sleeping Bear Dunes again.  We hiked the Cottonwood Trail.  The views of Glen Lake were beautiful and the dunes were plentiful...you notice when you are hauling 30 pounds of Emmy and backpack on your back.

We drove to the dunes overlook of Lake Michigan.  I believe the dune goes down 350 feet to Lake Michigan.  Our plan was to climb down the dune and walk the beach back to the city of Empire...but we didn't have an extra car to do a drop off.  The only other option was to climb back up the dune...YEAH RIGHT.  Not with a kid on your back.  So we stayed at the top and enjoyed the view.

 Keelin on top of the world.

 Those little black dots are PEOPLE climbing up and down the dune.  I could not get the top and bottom of the dune all in one frame on my WIDE angle lens...that is a lot of dune.

Keelin and her grandma enjoying the view.
Keelin has been to this lookout 3 times...once in my belly when I was preggo, 6 months old, and now 4.5 years.

We had a wonderful lunch/dinner in the town of Glen Arbor before heading back to our cabin.