Great Midwestern Road Trip - Part 2: Saginaw

So after some time in Dayton we headed up I-75 to Saginaw (with a dinner stop in Toledo). Mid-Michigan is a truly lovely place, particularly in late summer, with cool breezes through the pine trees.

Karen's parent's house is on a nice stretch of land that leads back to the Tittabawassee River and we took a lot of nice walks back there.




Another highlight was our trip to the Saginaw Children's Zoo - a really nice collection of animals (including penguins! and monkeys!) in downtown Saginaw. They had a really fun train ride around the perimeter that Juliet thoroughly enjoyed and she seemed rather entertained by the various creatures (though she called some of them "cat").







And several miscellaneous shots of playing:






The complete set, in higher resolution, is available here.