Sunday, July 22, 2012

Last week was eventful, but not always in the best ways...Tuesday I got in an early morning 11-mile bike ride / benchmarking hunt, just before everyone (including Mom and Dad) hit the road for Saugatuck for a family gathering for Mom and Dad's 50th anniversary. We stayed a few days at the Douglas House B&B together with Laura & Thomas and Ben. The B&B itself is beautiful, with several very nice rooms all of which were occupied by us, a nice patio garden, and the food was amazing. Wednesday, Missy woke Beth and me up and told us that there were men with badges in the house. They turned out to be EMTs attending to Dad, who had been having chest pains and shortness of breath. He was taken to the hospital and spent a good portion of the day there. But in the end, it turned out to be more or less nothing...acid reflux, and he missed some medication. Scary stuff anyway.We found a nice public beach that seems to be mostly unknown and had a fun beach day, then later on did some shopping and had dinner at a really swanky golf club. We all took a duck tour of Saugatuck and Douglas, by land and by sea, Thursday afternoon (I took so many pictures that the driver started calling me 'creepy camera guy' after a while), and I took the kids to the dune buggy ride in the afternoon. Later on we all went to South Haven for some shopping and to eat dinner at Clementine's, and see the sunset at the beach. Friday we all headed home. We took the kids to see Ice Age 4 when we got home, which they enjoyed, at least.