These weekend, me, Karen, and Ciara went home with Demoree to Traverse City. For once, I'm running a couple photos I didn't take, so if I didn't take the photo I'll say who did. Demoree set up the above photo.

Demoree gave us the grand tour of where she grew up. We got to see some of her many paintings, which was coolness.

An old Philco fridge

The perilous falling rake.

The garage.

Ciara took this photo. The dog's name is Cal.

The black bocce ball team takes on all challengers.

Ciara measures for closest ball. Chas and Mrs. Fritz ended up winning.

Ciara loves few things more than hosting Family Feud.

The Hulsefinski family played the Fritz family and (suprisingly) won.

A Traverse City home the next morning on our way from our parking spot to the Cherry Festival

The entrance of Traverse City's 72nd Annual Cherry Festival

Ciara demonstrates her pit spitting skills

The four of us hit the bingo tent to represent for the younger croud. We had a lot of fun but didn't win despite having 20 cards between us for a couple games.

Karen one away from a bingo.

Ciara in a similar situation, playing our last cards for us.

The beach was crowded

A sand scupture

Walking the streets of Traverse City

They had a couple of fair rides included two ferris wheels, which Karen and I rode. Afterwards we walked Traverse City a while longer before returning to the house

Later the same day we hit the Cedar Polka Festival. Thats right, this Dutch boy learned to dance like a Polish person. It wasn't that hard really.

The dance floor got far more crowded than this, so you had to make sure you didn't spin your way into a Pole (har har, puns).

We played hearts when we needed to rest and cool off: its pretty exhausting.

Finally, we rounded out our weekend by going to North Bar Lake on Sunday before leaving to come back to Ann Arbor

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