My Wedding, Honeymoon, and life!

It has been a while since I have posted anything on here! Thats what happens when you get wrapped up in a wedding, honeymoon, etc.

My wife, Kelly, and I were married August 1st on Windmill Island here in Holland, MI. We were lucky and had perfect weather (although very hot in a tux!). Windmill Island is already absolutely beautiful, but our caterers (Via Maria) did an awesome job turning the Celebration Pavilion into a reception even better than our dreams!

After the wedding we stayed the night at the new City Flats Hotel in downtown Holland. It is a LEED certified Hotel, which means it is very energy efficient and heavily uses recycled materials. The stay there was WONDERFUL, we didn't want to leave!

For our honeymoon we went up to Petosky for a few days. The last day we were there we spent at the spa at Boyne getting massages and relaxing.

After our massages we hopped in the car and headed for Mackinac Island. We did the usual tourist things (took the buggy ride around the island, bought fudge, etc.) before some nasty looking clouds rolled in (thunderstorms were predicted). We still needed to get to our campsite and set up our tent so we decided to leave before we could tour the fort.

Hopping back in our car we traveled over "the bridge" into the U.P. and headed west on US 2. We stopped at a State Park just east of Naubinway by the name of Hog Island Point State Park. It was very rustic but incredible beautiful. Our site was right on the shore of Lake Michigan! We literally looked out our tent onto Lake Michigan! It was serene and incredibly relaxing, just what we needed after the busy pre-wedding weeks.

Because it was such a rustic campground it had no showers, therefore my wonderful wifey decided we needed to leave the next morning for our final destination of our honeymoon: Taquamenon Falls. If you don't know anything about Taquamenon Falls (as I didn't) it is actually a set of falls (the Upper and Lower Falls). Check out the wiki page for it here.

Nearest to the campground is the Lower Falls. It is very wide with an island in the middle of it. The Lower Falls isn't a very high fall, in fact there kids playing in part of it, they were barely shorter than the falls.

The falls are sometimes are known as the Rootbeer Falls because of their distinctive color. The water isn't dirty at all, quite the opposite, but it is stained by the soil which is heavy in peat and iron.

The Upper Falls are about 4 miles from the Lower Falls. There is a very nice trail made so you can hike from one to the other. We (I) decided that a 4 mile hike doesn't sound that bad...until you have to hike back, so we drove. This fall is about 50 foot high and was altered back in the logging days because it was ruining the lumber as they were trying to float it down the river.

All in all, it was a very relaxing time.

It dawned on me how stressful the whole wedding thing is, and many buyers (and some sellers) are going through all of this while trying to purchase (or sell) a home! If you are a buyer (or seller) looking to for someone who can understand and help take some stress out of your experience I would love to help! I can be reached via call or text message at 616.502.0367 or via email at mslager@greenridge.com. I especially love helping first time buyers!