Food & Exercise -- 8/7/2007

This morning we had breakfast at a diner in Carlisle (where we'd spent
last night with my MIL), then drove all day -- ~450 miles. We're in
Dundee, MI -- a ways south of Ann Arbor. We had lunch on the road,
and ate dinner tonight in the cafe in a Cabelas store. Cabelas is a
chain of giant outfitters stores. We don't have them in our area and
I'd wanted to visit one sometime. It was really something to see,
with hills and streams and stuff indoors, but I was disappointed as
I'd thought it was overall sporting goods and it was really just
hunting and fishing -- neither an interest of mine. It was fun to
see, though.

Tomorrow we will drive to Grand Rapids to meet DH's sister for lunch,
and then will take a ferry boat across Lake Michigan.

Ate too much today :-).

Food:

* 8:15 (diner): 1 glass orange juice; 2 fried eggs; 1 peanut butter
cup pancake (order came w/ 2, but only ate about half)
* 12:30 (restaurant): 1 glass wine; 1/2 lb. peel-and-eat spiced shrimp
(whose preparation clearly included some melted butter)
* 2:00 (driving): small "donut" peach
* 4:30 (driving): another peach
* 5:45 (hotel check-in desk): 1 mini chocolate chip cookie
* 6:45 (Cabelas cafe): venison bratwurst w/ a little sauerkraut (came
in a large bun but I didn't eat it -- just too filling); ~1/2 order of
French fries; large brownie
* currently (hotel room): 1 glass wine

Exercise: None, other than wandering around Cabelas

Chris
262/130s/130s

I've seen Cabelas online (guys at work go to it for the guns, so I see it in
the internet surf logs). Your experience sounds like its very similar to
Bass Pro Shop. We have those around here and the larger ones are HUGE with
th cafe inside, restaurant as well as large faux rock sculptures with
streams, waterfalls and large glass ponds with fish in it where they give
flie fishing and bass fishing demonstrations. Pretty cool, but again,
geared more towards hunting and fishing. Although they usually have a large
woman's clothing section (mostly overpriced) with alot of outdoors
sporting/exercise type of clothing. Big supplier of Columba clothing.

It sounds like you are having fun on your get-a-way. Enjoy MI - its been
many years since I've been up there.


--
JJ
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"Chris" <braun_chris@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> This morning we had breakfast at a diner in Carlisle (where we'd spent
> last night with my MIL), then drove all day -- ~450 miles. We're in
> Dundee, MI -- a ways south of Ann Arbor. We had lunch on the road,
> and ate dinner tonight in the cafe in a Cabelas store. Cabelas is a
> chain of giant outfitters stores. We don't have them in our area and
> I'd wanted to visit one sometime. It was really something to see,
> with hills and streams and stuff indoors, but I was disappointed as
> I'd thought it was overall sporting goods and it was really just
> hunting and fishing -- neither an interest of mine. It was fun to
> see, though.
>
> Tomorrow we will drive to Grand Rapids to meet DH's sister for lunch,
> and then will take a ferry boat across Lake Michigan.
>
> Ate too much today :-).
>
> Food:
>
> * 8:15 (diner): 1 glass orange juice; 2 fried eggs; 1 peanut butter
> cup pancake (order came w/ 2, but only ate about half)
> * 12:30 (restaurant): 1 glass wine; 1/2 lb. peel-and-eat spiced shrimp
> (whose preparation clearly included some melted butter)
> * 2:00 (driving): small "donut" peach
> * 4:30 (driving): another peach
> * 5:45 (hotel check-in desk): 1 mini chocolate chip cookie
> * 6:45 (Cabelas cafe): venison bratwurst w/ a little sauerkraut (came
> in a large bun but I didn't eat it -- just too filling); ~1/2 order of
> French fries; large brownie
> * currently (hotel room): 1 glass wine
>
> Exercise: None, other than wandering around Cabelas
>
> Chris
> 262/130s/130s
>

On Aug 8, 7:34 am, "LFM" <nothank...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> I've seen Cabelas online (guys at work go to it for the guns, so I see it in
> the internet surf logs). Your experience sounds like its very similar to
> Bass Pro Shop. We have those around here and the larger ones are HUGE with
> th cafe inside, restaurant as well as large faux rock sculptures with
> streams, waterfalls and large glass ponds with fish in it where they give
> flie fishing and bass fishing demonstrations. Pretty cool, but again,
> geared more towards hunting and fishing. Although they usually have a large
> woman's clothing section (mostly overpriced) with alot of outdoors
> sporting/exercise type of clothing. Big supplier of Columba clothing.
>
> It sounds like you are having fun on your get-a-way. Enjoy MI - its been
> many years since I've been up there.
>
> --
> JJ
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I'm walking to save lives. You can help me by donating.http://www.the3day.org/tampabay07/jford
>
> "Chris" <braun_ch...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1186536374.853389.306600@b79g2000hse.googlegr oups.com...
>
>
>
> > This morning we had breakfast at a diner in Carlisle (where we'd spent
> > last night with my MIL), then drove all day -- ~450 miles. We're in
> > Dundee, MI -- a ways south of Ann Arbor. We had lunch on the road,
> > and ate dinner tonight in the cafe in a Cabelas store. Cabelas is a
> > chain of giant outfitters stores. We don't have them in our area and
> > I'd wanted to visit one sometime. It was really something to see,
> > with hills and streams and stuff indoors, but I was disappointed as
> > I'd thought it was overall sporting goods and it was really just
> > hunting and fishing -- neither an interest of mine. It was fun to
> > see, though.
>
> > Tomorrow we will drive to Grand Rapids to meet DH's sister for lunch,
> > and then will take a ferry boat across Lake Michigan.
>
> > Ate too much today :-).
>
> > Food:
>
> > * 8:15 (diner): 1 glass orange juice; 2 fried eggs; 1 peanut butter
> > cup pancake (order came w/ 2, but only ate about half)
> > * 12:30 (restaurant): 1 glass wine; 1/2 lb. peel-and-eat spiced shrimp
> > (whose preparation clearly included some melted butter)
> > * 2:00 (driving): small "donut" peach
> > * 4:30 (driving): another peach
> > * 5:45 (hotel check-in desk): 1 mini chocolate chip cookie
> > * 6:45 (Cabelas cafe): venison bratwurst w/ a little sauerkraut (came
> > in a large bun but I didn't eat it -- just too filling); ~1/2 order of
> > French fries; large brownie
> > * currently (hotel room): 1 glass wine
>
> > Exercise: None, other than wandering around Cabelas
>
> > Chris
> > 262/130s/130s- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Yep, sounds much the same. Michigan is beautiful. We had a really
nice lunch with DH's sister and nephew. We're now in Muskegon in the
ferry waiting room (which, to our surprise, has wireless). The ferry
will take us across Lake Michigan to Milwaukee. We're looking forward
to the ride; it's a beautiful (though hot) day.

Chris

"Chris" <braun_chris@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>
> Yep, sounds much the same. Michigan is beautiful. We had a really
> nice lunch with DH's sister and nephew. We're now in Muskegon in the
> ferry waiting room (which, to our surprise, has wireless). The ferry
> will take us across Lake Michigan to Milwaukee. We're looking forward
> to the ride; it's a beautiful (though hot) day.
>
> Chris
>

Snag up some petosky stones while you are there. I've always loved those
thing. As a kid I collected a whole bunch of them and my grandparents gave
me a rock tumbler to polish them. I do wish I had kept all those, as they
would look wonderful in my garden now.

--
Jennifer
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I'm walking to save lives. You can help me by donating.
http://www.the3day.org/tampabay07/jford