Reading, swan boats and a dinner out (corrected)

It was another beautiful, postcard kind of day here in Mears, Michigan. Lots of folks heading home this morning as we took our walk around the park. Low humidity and temps in the mid-1970s were perfect.

For the second day, we basically did nothing. I’m nearly through my next O’Brian book and got plenty of sun today. There was a minor rebellion here in happy land as Joan decided she had cooked enough and wanted to eat out.

Late in the afternoon we headed to Silver Lake to poke around and also find a restaurant for dinner. We shopped at a little resort strip of businesses. Next to the business was a fun center that included Swan boats. The only other place we had seen Swan boats was in Boston. I have posted a photo here for Elin, our Boston girl, to compare the Swans.

We looked around Silver Lake but didn’t see a restaurant that seemed to inspire us so we got back in the Tahoe and headed out on a little adventure. We found a road sign promoting the Open Hearth Grill so we followed the arrows until we found it.

It was a nice little restaurant on the second floor of building. The first floor was a convenience store and a BP gas station. One of those “Eat Here, Get Gas” kind of things we used to see on family trips to Nebraska.

That just brought a childhood remembrance of a little town in Nevada – Black Mountain – (Correction: My father, a daily reader of this blog pointed out that it was Battle Mountain, Nevada, not Black Mountain that caused the laughter - there is a picture at the link that shows the "BM") that had a monument to the town painted at the top of a nearby mountain. “BM” in big white letters brought endless laughter to me and my brother when we first saw it. Hey, we were only in our pre-teens and at that age anything with “BM” on it was pretty funny.

Anyway, the Open Hearth was a good restaurant and we left very satisfied and headed back to our camp. Forgot to take a picture of the restaurant though.