South Haven, Michigan

For the second year in a row my friend Allison & I took the big kids to the beach in Michigan for a long weekend. After lots of researching the beach towns along the western coast of MI we chose South Haven. It's only 5 hours from Columbus, has tons of kid friendly beaches (literally the beaches have jungle gyms and swings right on the sand!). The forecast looked terrible (60 & rainy) so we loaded up the van with lots of non-beachy activities. None of which we ended up using bc we had perfect beach days minus the water being ICE COLD. Shout out to our VRBO Bungalow 89. We loved it so much last year we stayed again. It's a 2 minute walk to the beach and a 10 min walk in to town. It's stocked to the brim with everything from ping pong balls for the game table to S'mores sticks for the fire pit.

The unexpected hit of the trip for me was seeing how much fun the kids had riding their scooters into town. Minus screaming at everyone to walk down the hills, it was so fun to watch our scooter gang fly into town for coffee & donuts! It's tradition to catch a Summer movie at the old fashioned South Haven movie Theater.