We Found It! – August 23, 2015

We had to drive to Marquette to go to church this morning because there is no Church of Christ in Munising and we found a small but friendly church not far from the downtown area.

Marquette is a larger city with all the franchise options of restaurants available but we were directed downtown to the locally owned L’Attitude Bistro and what a treasure.  They had fresh brewed ice tea that tasted like real tea!  Our delightful waitress, Traci, said the assistant manager drinks iced tea all day and is fanatical about it being made right and tasting good.  I have to think most of the other restaurants we have been in never taste the stuff they pass off as iced tea.

Once we tasted the tea, everything on the menu looked good and we acted like people just rescued from a deserted island.  We ordered something called Falafel Waffle as an appetizer.

Appetizer Falafel Waffle

This is a batter made of chick peas with middle eastern spices then put into a small waffle iron and served with a sour cream and dill sauce, cucumber, lettuce and tomato and Traci suggested that we construct each bite to make sure there was sauce, tomato, cucumber and lettuce on each one.  She was right.  It was good if you got all the flavors together.  As a stand alone food, falafel has little taste.

Then I ordered the Ahi Tuna salad with wasabi cream and home made sesame dressing while Jim had Whitefish Tacos.

“Wicked” Sesame Ahi Tuna Salad

Shipwrecked Lake Superior Whitefish Tacos

Not knowing when the next opportunity for food other than mediocre fried fish or meatloaf would present itself, we opted for coconut crusted chocolate pie and raspberry-peach fruit tart for dessert.

Coconut Crusted Chocolate Pie

Raspberry Peach Tart

Stuffed with good food and no plan, we drove to find a lighthouse that turned out not to have public access.

Marquette Lighthouse

Then we drove along a beach side park with some pretty overlooks.

Pool at shoreline – Marquette Bay

Rocky shoreline at Marquette

and noticed all the flowers planted along the side of the main roads, reminiscent of the smaller towns down south.

Flowers on Main Street in Marquette, MI

Across from the restaurant there was this strange looking thing.

Iron Ore Loader

Later in our drive, we found one of these iron ore loaders in operation with rail cars on it. It looks like the rail cars filled with the ore are driven out onto the top of the loader and ore is dumped into a hopper and down chutes to load onto freighters.

Most places we go, we ask about the name Yoopers and what do they call people down state.  Everybody up here immediately says Trolls, but we got a little more information this time.  The complete answer is, “Trolls because they live under the bridge”.