On the road again... Sandy Pond to Annawan

On Thursday (July 10th) it was time to (sadly) hit the road again.  It was a bit hard to leave the Lake, but the time had come...  We took two days to drive to Annawan, Illinois (Shannon's home town).

The first day we had an easy drive to just west of Cleveland to a state park on East Harbor which is attached to Lake Erie.  This campground had over 500 campsites and the mass of campers were impressive but suprisngly not in an annoying way... everybody was just happily enjoying a warm Mid-Western night on the lake.  A great scene of summer.

We drove over to Marblemount Lighthouse as the sun was setting and checked out the views:

 

The next morning we got ready to hit the road but not before noticing a small army of daddy-long-legs all over our tent.  We don't see these at all in the Pacific Northwest, in some sort of weird way, I missed them.  This one was on the outside of our tent:

We hit the road to Annawan and made our highly anticipated stop at Cheddars for lunch.  Cheddars (which is basically an Applebees) is one of few places in the country that makes a Monte Cristo sandwich by deep frying it instead of just using French toast.  This is something that I really love... I was pretty pumped:

 

A few hours later, we made it to Annawan, where will we spend the next week with the Peart clan!