Warning!: Family Vacations May Be Hazardous to Your Health by Clare Lockman Mary

Author:Clare Lockman, Mary
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Family Vacations
Publisher: Fuzion Print
Published: 2016-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

Split Rock Lighthouse was a few short miles from Gooseberry Falls. Anne remained quiet en route. The lighthouse—as interesting as I remembered it—was completed in 1910 and used until 1960. Since then, it’s been part of the Minnesota State Park system.

We toured the lighthouse and walked up the steps to see the huge refractory lens. The octagonal lighthouse stood high above Lake Superior with a dazzling view of the Lake. We inspected the lighthouse keeper’s house, looked at the other buildings, and took some pictures with the Lake in the background.

We meandered to the gift shop area.

Anne’s vivaciousness hadn’t returned. I could have teased her, but I waited for her to bring it up.

“Why do you think he liked me?”

“I don’t know. Maybe you look like a deer.”

“No, I mean it. Why did he like me?”

“Maybe you smell good.”

“I don’t have any perfume on.” Anne put her fingers in her mouth and began to chew her nails. She hadn’t done that since the bear park in Rapid City. “They have better senses of smell than we do.”

“Maybe he’s really dumb,” ten-year-old Clare interjected.

“Maybe,” I agreed.

“I’m glad he wasn’t full grown,” Anne said with a shudder.

Colleen and Erin came over to hear what we were talking about. I pushed up Colleen’s glasses on her small nose. One of us did this many times a day.

“You guys ready to go?” I asked.

“Yup.”

We arrived in the Lutsen area in time for an early dinner. Each of the girls had two dollars of nickels left. They had had some minor disagreements in the van, but nothing that warranted a nickel being taken away.

We finished eating and went outside to sit and marvel at my favorite lake.

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