"Hey Sarah, Now that the grandparents are watching the baby and we've got some free time on our hands, lets go check out some sites up and around upper michigan. I hear there is a really cool park down the road from here...."


"It's just a bit further....down this long open road of nothing...."


"Not much longer now, just further down this road, farther and farther away from civilization...."


"Why do i keep checking my cell phone, sarah? Oh no reason. I don't have any service for the past 10 miles or so...."


"Oh my god Brandon! put down that knife! i forgot to pay the last couple of months on my 350K life insurance policy!"


"Haha, Sarah, I really wasn't trying to kill you. It was all just a big joke. I was only trying to spread butter on my toast here that i just toasted in the toaster oven that we keep in the back seat because i was very hungry. Yeah. Toast..... But seriously, when we do get home, make sure you pay up on that thing and keep it current....you never know what might happen...."


"Oh, well, in that case, I am sorry for over reacting. I didn't know how hungry you were."


"Hum, I could have sworn there really was a place around here called lumbermans momument..."


"Oh look! there it is. There really is something out here. Good. I mean, I knew it was here all along!"


"Sarah, what are you doing over there playing in that pile of logs? Don't you know those logs could become unstable and tumble and crush you beneath?"


Brandon pushes sarah out of the way of the tumbling logs saving her life. He is hailed a hero. The local newspapers pick up the story and build a monument in his honor. The national media swarms the story and public outcry is so over whelming that July 20th becomes 'National Brandon Kasper is the Coolest guy on Earth and Nobody Can Ever Come Close To Being As Cool As He Is EVER In the History Of All Man Kind' Day.


And there is the monument honoring all of the hard working lumbermen who gave their life on the river and dedicated their existance to helping towards a single goal of progress.


"Real mature, Sarah. Yes, it says erected. Ha. Ha. Now everybody get a good laugh and take away from the meaning of the monument. *sigh*."


"What a beautiful view Sarah! Why don't you lean really really close to the rail and i'll stand back here and take a picture...from back here...."


"260 steps to the bottom? No problem, I eat 260 steps for breakfast. in my sleep. Up hill. Both ways. In 10 feet of snow. With no shoes."


"Hey sarah, Why don't you go down first and i'll follow you taking pictures of these really steep steps with no breaks in them so if you were to fall near the top you would probably fall all the way to the bottom with nothing to stop you or catch you from going all the way down these steps..."


A beautiful view of the hill that logs used to roll down and into the water to be sent down stream to the lumber mill. Often times boaters and their children will climb to the very top and run to the bottom splashing into the water and having so much fun.


Other people, like this couple here, tell their children that nobody has ever made it to the top and bet them that they couldn't do it themselfs and then jump in the water and use the opportunity to have sex.


Hey, Wait a second, this isn't as beautiful as nature intended it. All those logs are cut! and they aren't even real! they're made of some sort of stone!


And here is what was at the bottom. A replica house boat that used to float up and down the rivers that these lumbermen used to live on.


This guy was so involved in taking pictures of the amazing house boat, he didn't see the old man sitting next to him, drop his keys in the water, bend over to pick them up, fall overboard, struggle for help because he's old and he can't swim, and then sink to the bottom never to be seen again. Tragic.

Go on in and take a look and see if that houseboat is really as awesome as it is.