Spring Break in Houghton…Yuppers for a Week!

For Spring break we ventured twelve hours north to Houghton, Michigan to visit Benjamin’s brother and his family. It is a tiny little town in the Upper Peninsula surrounded by the Great Lakes. It was such a fun week! Abraham and Chelsea were so so kind to us while we stayed there. We ate so well! Chelsea is such a good cook! She made us amazing mushroom burgers, Thai curry, homemade sushi rolls, cinnamon rolls, chocolate chip cookies, a delicious caprese salad, and these delicious custard pancakes called pannukakku. Chelsea was also almost constantly whipping up a batch of hot cocoa! One of the stores there was having an annual fresh sea food sale, so Chelsea and I headed to the store and came back with king crab legs, scallops, shrimp, sausage, and tons of veggies. She prepared a delicious crab boil for us. When it was time to eat, she dumped it all out on the table. We all had little cups of melted butter and sliced lemons and then we all just dug in! It was such a fun and amazingly delicious experience.

We also ordered pasties (hand held meat and veggie pies that are a big food in the UP) twice. So good!

On Fat Tuesday (the day before lent starts), we went out for these amazing filled doughnut things call packzi. We all polished off a bunch of them and then Chelsea and I went out again to get more because we wanted to try them from a different shop. 

Chelsea also took me and Stella out for breakfast at a Finnish breakfast restaurant. We had the best thin, somewhat crispy pancakes.

While we were there we also went cross country skiing and sledding. There was so much snow! I have never seen so much snow in one place.

Benjamin and the boys spent a lot of time outside skiing, skate skiing, snow shoeing, and just playing. Thank goodness Pearl had an extra snow suit for Stella! Such cute twinners.

We also went to this really cool mineral museum. It had the neatest displays of gems and rocks. Abe and Chelsea were so so sweet and bought me a pretty ring with an opal gem stone. Its kind of a purplish opal and it is so pretty. I really love it.

Chelsea is pretty much the sweetest person I have ever met. She helped me make these cute little boots for Stella. I was so proud of them and she was the best teacher.

Most of all, we had so much fun hanging out with the family.

 

Stella loved her cousins Pearl, Ruby, Miles, and Isaac. She was in heaven having so many friends around.

It was just such a great trip. Thanks so much Abe and Chels for the best spring break ever, snow and all.