May 2017 trip to Lansing, Grand Haven, and Chicago

I wanted to visit my nephew and family but we decided to meet somewhere in the middle since our ultimate destination was Grand Haven. We tried to do an AirBnB for the first time but the host did not follow through on the check-in information leaving us in Lansing with no place to stay after a long drive from St. Louis. We ended up at the Renaissance which turned out to be very nice and for Saturday, it was affordable. We had dinner at Troppo which was a wonderful restaurant on East Michigan Ave.

Once we arrived in Grand Haven, we had a great dinner at Snug on the 22nd of May and enjoyed a bottle of Iconic chardonnay, the goat cheese pepper dip, pad thai, scallops, and black bean cakes.
We had lunch at BilMar on the 24th, the day we looked at the Dodge Journey that we ended up buying the next day. We are glad we did as BilMar is now closed for good.
We celebrated the purchase of the Dodge with lunch at the Lucky Tea Cafe.

From there, we drove our new SUV right into downtown Chicago and stayed on the Public on North State. We had dinner at the Blue Door. We enjoyed two breakfasts at the 3rd Coast Cafe.
We spent one day walking to Navy Pier and rode the Ferris wheel. On the way back we stopped at Caffe Olivia on Grand Ave right at the beach and had falafel with an organic chardonnay called Natural. The remaining time we enjoyed time with Adam and Deanna. We at BBQ which was their treat and they taught us to play a number of virtual reality games. It was a lot of fun.







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