The Cabin and the Outhouse and Us on the day we left.
In an odd turn of events, we ended up visiting the mine I had told you about earlier…
The boys were all “hello, we have trees at home we could walk around in” when we were finding beautiful places to hike around in.
It was when they said this that I immediately sent my parents a postcard apologizing for not appreciating all the hard work and money that goes into a family vacation. If ever I was ungrateful, please forgive me. And know that now my children are…
Anyhow, my husband said, “Hey, how about we go to Iron Mountain?”
And our boys loved the idea. They also happen to like Buck Howdy’s version of Big John and Big John greets you at the mine so it was a double bonus.
Something to keep in mind if you visit Iron Mountain Iron Mine Tour – the mine is a balmy 43 degrees so dress warm.
I honestly did not think this is where we had gone for our anniversary until it started coming back to me in pieces. As soon as we were in the mine, a hundred fun memories flooded me…so I had the boys take a photo.
We had never gotten a photo when we were there 16 years ago so it just seemed right. That Jake is even looking at the camera is a shocker, because he was warning the boys and I to keep a sharp eye out for bats.
We did see a few bats and over all the boys had a really great time.
There is just no great photo taking opportunities in a mine.
What was funny, or not so much, is that my husband felt we had come out of the mine really well in not seeing too many bats and they all stayed away from us. The lady at the counter at the gift shop gave the boys two posters to take home of Michigan’s bats.
It proved beneficial on our trip.
The next day we visited Fayette Village. As we were wondering around (it’s a wonderful place to visit and S1 is quite sure he saw a bald eagle there), we noticed a seagull acting oddly.
It was attacking a bat in the middle of the day. We all watched it for a bit, it seemed so out of place and peculiar.
That night we returned to the cabin to sleep. We had made hotdogs and one of the boys hadn’t finished it so they had tossed it out the door. Early in the morning, when it was still dark, I heard a scratching sound so I awakened Jake to go investigate.
He got up because he heard it too and was walking toward the window when suddenly a bat swooped down.
I have never seen my husband run for bed so fast in my life.
He jumped in the bed and threw the blanket over his bald head. ”There’s a bat!” he screeched.
I couldn’t resist. I began poking him in the back, “Aren’t you suppose to get up and protect us by catching the bat?” I giggled.
The boys were ready. They wanted to find a net somewhere in the cabin – they were sure there was one in the rafters – but eventually it flew away.
My husband tells me now that he had jumped into bed with me to keep me safe and his plan to protect me obviously worked because the bat went away.
The next morning, we were still talking about the bat. We all slept late that morning. Jake was making breakfast and I was sick of not seeing anything so I decided to put my contacts in. As I was washing my hands to put my contacts in
The
Bat
Flew
Right
In
Front
of
My
Face
I screamed and dropped. I’ll admit it.
I had felt the bat’s wings beating wind into my face.
Being me, I then attempting to get video but all i did was shoot some terrible blurry photos with my phone that you can’t see anything on. Apparently that happens when you are dunking and waving a phone around and keeping an eye out for a bat.
The boys squealed in joy and really would have liked to have caught it but it flew up in a corner and hid. I point out that corner in the Cabin video.
My husband thinks the bat seemed to know it’s way around the cabin very well, as if we are disturbing his home.
The rest of the trip, at some point in the night, we could hear the bat’s wings “swoop swoop swoop” across the room but we never saw it again.
We were all fine with that.
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