UP NORTH WITH THE CLARKS

“wow, I sure am parched. What’s Your Pleasure?”, Jeanne Lesniewicz - Leland, MI

This August, the in-laws headed Up North to spend 5 days at my parent’s cottage on Lake Leelanau in Leland, Michigan. We had a such a great time – shopping stores & galleries in Suttons Bay, Northport & Leland; hiking the Lake Michigan bluff in Glen Arbor; pondering the thought that i really really want 2 Scottish Highlands (cute hairy cow above from nearby ranch), eating great dinners at home & out, fishing on the pontoon boat and campfires at night. We are so very lucky, our parents all get along so great & when the 6 of us get together we always have such a great time and we’re always cracking up at something! Hence the sub-title of this post. After my mom gave JoAnne & Peter a tour of the house she came down the stairs with them and this is when I happened to just walk into the house from the backyard and I happen to catch this southern-like hospitality coming out of my mom's mouth (mind you we are UP NORTH) & she's directing it towards JoAnne & Peter (of whom we are on a VERY CASUAL basis with….). She says: “wow, I sure am parched. What’s your pleasure?” And that’s when the plain I’ve-just-been-lounging-outside look on my face turned into a big fat “HUH???” look. OMG – it was so funny! and when she said it, she did a little hop up from the heal of her feet to the balls of her feet, and she clapped her hands once when she said “pleasure”. I don’t know, maybe you had to be there – but as I often do say…it was HILARIOUS!! And we didn’t let up on my poor mom about it the whole time we were there. In fact, one night at the dinner table, as we were dying laughing about it – JoAnne chimes in with “oh Jeanne – you don’t WANNA know what our pleasure is….”

Justin & I have the best family ever. Can’t wait to make Up North with the Clarks a tradition! ☺

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