Saturday, May 23, 2009

SS Badger Mini Cruise, May 22, 2009


My college friend Cindy and I decided that we wanted to "sail into summer" on opening day of the SS Badger. Tickets were only $35 for a round trip "mini cruise" for the day!

Much to our surprise, Ludington has a parade to send people off on the first voyage of the season. People also line up along the channel waving good bye and the fire station has water flowing too :)

We went from Ludington, MI to Manitowoc, WI, which is 60 miles by Lake Michigan or approx 4 hours. We had to be there at 8am to start loading. We started leaving Ludington approx. 9:10 am and it was sprinkling out with the sun soon to come :) Got to Manitowoc about 1:20pm and had about 1-1/2 hours to walk around downtown.

Upon our walk downtown, we found many things to take pictures of and even found an antique shop where Cindy was in heaven and then I ended up finding a vintage shop where I found a hat that suits me perfectly :)

Departed Manitowoc, WI, approx 3:20pm and Cin and I had the perfect seats sitting in the sun on the way back (of course we got sun burns).

SS Badger docked back in Ludington, MI, approx 7:15pm. From there, we departed our separate ways and went to our homes.

What an awesome day with a great friend!



1 comments:

The Lallo Family on May 30, 2009 at 3:57 PM said...

Looks beautiful! Make sure to let us know if you ever take the Lake Express Ferry! It's much closer to us! We would love to say a quick hi!

 

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