Great Family Cottage Memories
January 31st, 2010
| Author: Dan A. Penning
We’d love to know about the best time you and your family had at the family cottage!
What are some of your favorite family cottage memories?
When were those good times?
What did you do?
Who was there?
How hard did you laugh?
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It’s about this time of the year when I really begin to miss my aunt’s cottage in Leland, Michigan. It’s on the north end of Lake Leelanau and it’s a great place to spend a couple of weeks every summer. Sometimes we can get up there during the winter.
I love our cottage community and walking around in the “Fishtown” village of Leland. We usually get an ice cream cone at the Harbor House and walk around and shop a little and look in all the windows of the stores. One thing I’ve always loved about being in Leland in the summertime and walking around downtown is how there are huge groups of families all moving around together, laughing and tripping over each other’s feet while trying not to fall over the latest baby stroller added to the party!
There is always a great sense of family and togetherness when we are there.
Sometimes the people at Stander Marine will let us look at some of the classic Chris Craft boats in their marina. They are real beauties and always a throw back in time to watch one cruise up and down the Leland River. They are the tradition of families up there.
We usually head down to the Leland Marina in the evenings to watch the sunset over the Manitou Islands. You know, you can always pretty well predict we’re going to have a great time at my aunt’s cottage, but you can never predict how the sky over Lake Michigan will look when the sun starts to set. I’ve seen some of the most beautiful sunsets up there over Lake Michigan from the park at the Leland Marina.
Thanks for letting me share some of my favorite family vacation memories here. I can hardly wait to get back to northern Michigan and Leland!
B. Baer