Honeymoon Day 5: Destination #2 to #3

Troy slept in big time this morning! Or I just woke up early :) I had showered and was ready to go by the time he woke up! We were getting all our stuff packed to leave when the power went out at the hotel. It wasn't too big of a deal, but I was just about to go blow dry my hair when it went out; and it is awfully cold up here to go outside with wet hair! However, on my way to the bathroom I found another clue in there! It had been there for awhile before the power went out, so I was pretty bummed I didn't have the internet to watch the clue when I did find it. However, Troy has a t-mobile G1, so he had access to youtube, although it was pretty dang slow getting to it. I was finally able to watch the clue on his phone. My friend Dusti made this clue; she used her camera, so she could only take 15 second clips, so it's a little hard to catch it all! Here's the url: http://tr.im/26w9.

I guessed pretty quickly that we were heading to Marquette, MI!! I lived there for 5 years when I was in college at Northern Michigan University. I even guessed what hotel we were staying in; the Landmark Inn, one of the nicest hotels in Marquette. I've never even been inside this hotel, let alone stayed here. So we finished packing our stuff up and on our way out to drop off our suitcases we saw a freighter pull into the Locks. We quickly grabbed the rest of our stuff and checked out so we could watch it go through the Locks. It takes awhile and it was rather cold, thankfully they have viewing towers that block most of the wind. By the time the freighter finally went through, my legs were FREEZING. So we went into an Irish Pub across from the hotel for hot chocolate and lunch.

We finally hit the road and drove to Marquette. It was a relatively uneventful drive. We stopped in Christmas, MI just because I had driven by it a gazillion times on my way to school, but never stopped. We got a cute little Christmas ornament (the only souvenir of our honeymoon so far!). As we got closer to Marquette, it started snowing pretty badly and a semi tried driving us into oncoming traffic, but we made it safely. We checked into the Landmark and found out that our room was on the top floor!! Unfortunately, it doesn't look over Lake Superior, but we do have a cute view looking up Front St. The hotel is beautiful! Troy booked a Bed and Breakfast Package, so we get 2 breakfasts and a dinner included in our stay. So tonight we had dinner at Caper's, one of the restaurants here. It was amazingly delicious, my favorite meal of our honeymoon so far (although Troy still liked one of our meals at Boyne better). We didn't realize it, but even our dessert was included...we would have each gotten our own dessert if we had known that!

Now we're just relaxing in our room for the rest of the evening and watching Friday night stand-up on Comedy Central. I called Dr. Donovan, my adviser and physics professor from when I went to NMU, and we are meeting up with him for lunch tomorrow.

Also, here was my clue for figuring out where we were going: http://tr.im/26vy. Included with the clue were hockey tickets to the NMU game tomorrow night :) Troy made this clue because Dusti never sent him one, but after he made this he found 2 that she made on youtube, so we think maybe one of these were supposed to be the clue. Here's the url to those if you'd like to check them out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHsspcHaqKQ&feature=channel_page and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTOGRPr2Bcs&feature=channel_page.