Mackinac Island, Michigan

We had a wonderful day biking around and through the famous Mackinac Island of Lake Michigan today! The island is about 8 1/2 miles around and we explored every bit of it! It was a beautiful, enchanting island with most of the buildings in the traditional "New England" style architecture and there were NO MOTORIZED VEHICLES ALLOWED!! Only walking, biking and horse drawn carriages for transportation...really cool, if you ask me?! Not even the full-time residents have cars...only bikes or horses :-)). So here are just a few of the pictures that we took today. By the way...for those who might be wandering..."Mackinac" is pronounced "mackinaw" in the Native American Obijiwa language and it means "great turtle". Well, we are about to settle into the opening ceremony of the Olympics so I will sign off for the day. Blessings to our family and friends...we love, miss and are praying for you! Lioness

"The Arch" we saw along our bike ride around the island

 

Some examples of the New England architecture

Sooooo cute!!

One of the streets...lots of tourists today!

 

Pretty view of the island and Lake Michigan

The "famous" Grand Hotel

 

My favorite one!!

 

Horse drawn carriage :-))

 

One of the stables...gorgeous!

 

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