
Gazebo at Rabbit Run Inn
We drank wine here. It was lovely!

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Sunset on South Haven's Boardwalk
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Sunset at South Haven's lighthouse
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The Round Barn Winery/Distillery/Brewery

The winery is located in the Round Barn
I took the picture from the deck at the Brewery

Rabbit Run Inn swing
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The front of Rabbit Run Inn
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There was a pond in the Inn's backyard
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The back of our rooms - lovely porch to sit on and eat breakfast
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Handsome Devil (AKA My Husband!)
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Yikes I look tired
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Cheese balls are we!
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I call this "Brandon Contemplating the Sand"
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Bird I am not afraid of
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We couldn't figure it out at first...but this is a palm tree minus the tree part!

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Our home for the week as seen from the beach
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Cheesy "our hand prints together" picture
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Blue Herron footprints
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No...I had not been drinking when I took this
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Our plane for an hour!
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Our planes name was George
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George's shadow on the ground
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I have waited for this bridge many a time
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The Rod and Reel (aka My Happy Place) from the air
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Our home for the week as seen from the air
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Dolphin Aviation - you can read about it in Stephen King's book Duma Key!
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Posing with George...who leaked oil...but we still love him
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Hi! Want to grab some coffee?
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Then one day we got on a boat
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Another bird I am not afraid of...which is good cause they were EVERYWHERE
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And the captain took us to a rookery
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What is a rookery you ask?
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A place where birds breed
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Meaning there are LOTS of birds
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LOTS OF BIRDS
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But I stayed calm
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Mostly
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The bridge we had to drive over to get to Siesta Key
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Whose house, you ask? STEPHEN FREAKING KINGS!
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Midnight Pass
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Which is actually no longer a "pass" as Captain Robert explained
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Beautiful place to go shelling and shark teeth hunting
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Except we found no shark teeth :(
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Someone has a pretty boat...not us
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Captain Robert!
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Brandon insulted this Blue Herron by telling him he had big feet
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But he lived to tell about it
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My happy place (best fish and chips you will EVER have)
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Pointing the way to the turtle hospital!
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This is my turtle friend Shelly...we haven't seen each other in five years

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She hasn't changed a bit

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Same with my other turtle friend Edgar

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Siesta Beach
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Rocking cool bird - it doesn't flap it's wings and it talks to you! Not in English - I'm not crazy
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Fish hunting
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Warren Dunes
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Is the water warm enough for a swim? Uh...no.
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Warren Dunes The Decline
Yep...those are my footprints...or rather shuffles...down that VERY steep hill. Well...mine and Brandon's but I'm claiming it!

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Brandon trying to ignore both the camera and my constant coughing (we thought I had bronchitis)

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Birds live here in these holes. I didn't realize...until they flew out and swarmed me. SCARY!

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This is a bridge. It swings this direction so boats can pass. When a train comes, it swings closed so the train can cross. That's why it's called a swing bridge. Clever.

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This St. Joe's dog statue is probably my favorite because of the rain coat and kittens.

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See the kittens?

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But THIS St. Joe's dog statue came VERY close because it had a coconut bra!

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And then...

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I sang "There Ain't Nothin' Like a Dame" for Brandon for the next hour.

St. Joe's Merry Go Round
They finished rebuilding it! Last year when we went to see it (as the AAA guidebook said) the AAA rep was asked directions of said...

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"We don't HAVE a Merry Go Round!" and laughed at us. And then we pointed out that it was in THEIR guidebook and laughed at him for the rest of our trip.

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This was my favorite horse.

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Round Barn Winery
Named for their round barn...also clever. But it was my favorite winery we have visited in Michigan (of the whole 4 we have been to)

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My baby...enjoying his beer...ahem...wine...at the Round Barn.

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So cute...

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I appreciate the sentiment...but the way it is written sounds an awful lot like passing the buck.

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Picnic before we leave
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Final trip picture
I'm not sure I pulled off QUITE the artistic shot I was hoping for. Sigh.