Yesterday ran the gambit from excited to disappointment to educational to yummy to ahhhh.
I was excited before I even got out of bed because we were scheduled to go hiking with our friends, Donna and Tom Nowak. The feeling fizzled immediately upon removal of my ear plugs.
Rain. Boy, howdy. It was a gully washer. So we rescheduled for next week.
Now what? I finished stringing up some new bracelets. Fixed lunch and then noticed the sky was clearing up.
Petey had a great idea: check out Holland's Guide to Historic Sites.
Much like Allegan, Holland had some very cool old buildings. There are 33 on the list and we made it to the ones downtown on foot. The others will wait for another time.
The highlight of that tour was the 5/3 building on 8th Street. OMG! You have to go inside (they're used to seeing heads tilted upward with mouths agape) and check it out.
When we were ready for a break and feeling a bit peckish we took the recommendation of our friend Craig VanMelle and went to Poppin Huis for popcorn (yes, they make it all there and there are many, many choices) and some chocolate covered pecans.
Since it had turned out to be such a gorgeous day, we weren't quite ready to go back to The Red House so we hauled the chairs out of the car and went to Centennial Park and got into the corn/candy.
We tried unsuccessfully to not over do because we were going to a new-to-us restaurant in a few short hours.
The recommendation came to us via our neighbors Laurie and Roger and it was a spot-on suggestion.
The James Street Inn. Petey had the perch and I went with the ribs. Definitely going back - several hundred more times.
Now since we were out on James St. and not far from the beach and seeing as sunset was about 30 minutes away - off we went.
This was "turning lemons into lemonade" to a T.
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