GIRLS TRIP UP NORTH

Amy and I, along with our mom & our 3 aunts went Up North to my parents lake house in Leland, MI this Fall. First we want thank them for letting us impose on their Annual Sisters Weekend! We all had such a blast together while we went hiking, window shopping, stone searching at Good Harbor Beach & how can we forget....playing Guesstures! The only disappointment was that i didn't lose any weight from my Strick gut given all the laughing we did, i thought for sure something would have shed! When I think back on this trip, the one thing that really sticks out is my Aunt Snookie walking on the beach with us, she looked like a frickin' bag lady with that crazy (but cute!) scarf and hodge podged winter get up she had going on....she may as well just walked off of Madison & Adams street in Downtown Toledo. But she was missing one thing, a shopping cart, if only she would have been pushing a shopping cart in the parking lot at the beach. I bet people at the beach thought the rest of us were soooooooo nice to have picked up a bum and showed her the beauty of Northern Michigan. Hahahaha! Seriously, look at her in the shot above! ok, i can't talk much, with my makeshift turban there (it was cold!)

So, it's about a 5 hour drive and my sister and i headed up with our 3 dogs - drove through a flipping blizzard towards the end of it. But once we emerged out of the vertigo flurries and entered Traverse City, we put the music back on, since i didn't need to concentrate anymore on getting us there alive. I of course chose my "Love The Lionel" playlist on my iPod. Now i will tell you, there was a time when my sister thought i was quite the tool for wanting to listen to Lionel Richie on our pontoon boat one summer. But she came around, how can you not, it's Lionel, probably the best love ballad songwriter/singers EVER! So this night, while we were driving through T.C. Amy looks at me and says at first in a joking manner but ends her statement with complete dead on seriousness & a shaking of her head in disbelief "Wow. And the hits JUST KEEP ON COMIN'." I replied with "If this isn't Easy Listening, I seriously don't know what is." It was really hilarious, after we exchanged these words with each other we just totally busted out in laughter! And I don't care who you are - there is no denying Lionel's Greatest Hits. You can try to be cool and say you don't like it, but ya'll will come around like Amy did, whether you admit it or not, I do guarantee it. So now get on your iTunes and download some Lionel.

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