Swag Spotting – Friday Night Live

Dunes Concert

It only happens once a year, so you’ll want to mark your calendar for the next annual Dune Climb concert. The free event is part of the Manitou Music Festival, put on by the Glen Arbor Art Association. This year a bluesgrass band called Detour entertained the nearly 2,000 who gathered on the climb. Be sure to take in a tour of the mouth-watering picnic spreads and don’t miss the view of Little Glen Lake, seen from the top of the Climb.

Swag Spotting – Manitou Music Festival Sleeping Bear Dunes

Swag Spotting – Vintage Scooter

Outside Brew, TC, July 11, 2012

The Midway

I will admit Cherry Festival week is my least favorite time of the summer. The traffic, all the motor boats anchored in the bay, giant blow-up Frito Lay bags in the open space, and the hard-to-hide-from-a-child Midway rides in the Farmer’s Market lot. The requests started coming from my daughter as soon as she spotted them..”When can we go ride the rides?”. $20 of coin-scrounging later with me scratching my head wondering how she found that much, we were at the ticket booth buying $4.44 rides on the ferris wheels and $3.33 entries into the house of mirros (perhaps more aptly named the house of dirty plexi-glass?). On the bright side, photo-ops and people-watching were free.