the dunes...

We didn't stay inside our whole trip! We were hoping for snow so Jeff and the kids could ski, but instead we had no snow and mild temps. So, on Black Friday, while everyone else was shopping, we took out to Sleeping Bear Dunes and the Dune Climb.

Alex was pretty excited...

First order of business was to climb to the top of the front dune and run back down...

Jeff and I had figured that they would just climb and run down for a little while so we didn't dress to walk through sand. After running down, they announced that they would like to do some of the trails. Again, we didn't think this would last long, so we found ourselves a picnic table to sit at and sent them on their way....
However... they never came back! 45 minutes or so had past so Jeff had to go out looking for them! He finally found them about 1 1/2 hours after they had set out! They had decided to hike to Lake Michigan!!

He called them back and soon they were running down the front dune again...
Alex had my flip running as he ran and created a very motion sickness inducing video!

Here comes Jeff...
I had to interrupt their viewing of Alex's video in order to get just a couple more shots...

And then it was time to empty the sand out of our shoes and head back to the house!