Monday, June 26, 2006

Malapropisms from kids

Flamingos? Nope, Minda. It actually says Cedar Campus.


This is where we were. See where it says "Mariner's Cove"? That's where we stayed, right by that sandy beach.

If you don't want to go to the link at Cedar Campus above (if you want to keep guessing), to help in your quest to find out "Where's Waldo", I have to share with you a bit of our journey, using the words our kids were always using to refer to the items referred to:

"We drove between the Upper and Downer Peninsulas, over the Conneticut bridge. When you go over the Connecticut bridge, Lake Michigan is one one side, and Lake Calhoun on the other."

Unfortunatley, there was no Lake Calhoun and the bridge in the picture is not called the Connecticut bridge. And while Up-ers may be amused by the other part of the state being called the "downer" peninsula, it is actually called the "lower" peninsula. And this little trip across the bridge to the downer peninsula was just a side trip along our path, our actual path to Cedar Campus would not require us to cross this bridge.

Confused? I will let this sit one more day before I clarify.

Meanwhile...a picture from our journey.

I saw so many beautiful wildflowers. That will be the topic of a post later this week.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought it was the Mackinaw (SP?)Bridge but her sweatshirt didn't saw Michigan...but am I close???
Susan

nancy_scraps said...

Yep. The bridge in the backgroud was indeed the Mackinac (Mackinaw?) bridge.

We pronounced it Mackinac (ending with the c sound), and Margaret turned that into Connecticut somehow. Gotta' love it.