{"id":360,"date":"2009-06-14T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/06\/greetings-from-lake-michigan.html"},"modified":"2009-06-14T01:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T01:09:00","slug":"greetings-from-lake-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/06\/greetings-from-lake-michigan.html","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from Lake Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We stopped with Andy, Suzy and their kids on the lakeshore for just
over an hour. Between about 4-5pm, 8 hours into our drive. It was
cool and breezy, but the water wasn’t bad and Timmy got pretty wet.
The kids did lots of running around and I think the exercise did them
some good.
This is at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, near Chesterton, IN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We stopped with Andy, Suzy and their kids on the lakeshore for just over an hour. Between about 4-5pm, 8 hours into our drive. It was cool and breezy, but the water wasn’t bad and Timmy got pretty wet. 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