hey today we're doing something a little different the family and I are on our
way to Mackinac Island and if you're not familiar with Mackinac Island it is probably
one of the only places that you'll find where there's no Motor Vehicles and
horses that they still use on Island and people I believe can also still bring
their horses over there to ride so behind me you'll see the that's the
Mackinac Bridge that connects Lower Michigan to Upper Michigan so I'm here
with my husband Jason and our Bodhi there's tons of a flight and then here's
children and our friend our friend Klaus from Germany so we're just doing a fun
sort of touristy thing going to check out the island for the night and so stay
tuned I'll show you everything that's involved
so if you're not familiar with the Mackinac Bridge you can see behind me it
is five miles long
bodis not watching anything around here he's too involved with this
why do you like the maple honey
he's your friend yeah hi
Odie's so what kinetic buck took us 17 minutes to get here we have arrived on
the island and we saw horses within seconds of being on the street so this
is like the fifth carriage we've seen already so we're gonna head to our hotel
and get checked in and then we'll go cruise around yeah those are Percheron
honey
and do you know what these ones are these are Belgian they're read up ahead
honey horses and so distracted look at all the
beautiful horses it smells like fudge in horses you'd
swear that I never saw horse before my life but I go somewhere and I'm like
horses horses horses and I actually had to very first thing I did is I saw a
verse and I had to go up and touch it Jason's like can we not be distracted on
our way to the hotel no I see a horse I'm gonna touch it
that's just how it works so I had to touch a horse that again I will make
sure that you get such a verse people ride around on bikes and pick up all the
horse poop because there are no vehicles on island these roads are just for
horses how cool is that we need one of those from the parade
these two are both trotting one on the Left this has a little bit more pep in
his step okay we have made it to our place it's about a mile walk from the
docks I've been told that I need to stop looking at flowers and horses but I
can't help it the whole island is filled with them and those are like my two
favorite things besides Mike besides my kids of course I
said besides my kids meaning I love you more then I love flowers and horses I
mean I love flowers and horses a lot so but I love you more oh I try to be sweet
to you
the butterfly house effect it
Sofer there's one on your hat see you are the butterfly princess happy shoe
all the time
no way is this pretty much the best place ever
oh wow buddy you could that'd be so gentle
okay we have found the livery where you can rent a carrot horse and carriage and
drive them around the island by yourself if that sounds safe we're gonna give it
a try though this is the Grand Hotel after 6:00 p.m.
there is a dress code where ladies may not wear slacks and men must be in a
shirt and tie
so tonight we're taking a taxi back to our hotel and where we could have walked
it's not very far but we figured we'd take a taxi just to get the whole
experience of the how everything works on the island so basically with my
channel I'm trying to get you know obviously it's a the island is centered
around horses and stuff too so I'm trying to get as much first related
stuff on the video tomorrow as I can so what would you recommend that I go and
do tomorrow particularly there's a lot of different stables where you can micro
Cyndi's is where you can ride your own on okay there is also the carriage door
right there is a public and the private doors okay private let's go where you
want to go public one so all over the trail okay so they just let you rent a
horse and a carriage for an hour so
that's because the horse is no way there though yeah I was gonna say that you
know people call me all the time wanna know if I'll rent my horses or anything
and I get lessons but I'm like no I'm not willing to entrust my Rangers the
horses do 95% of the driving yes
you guys never have any risk riving is the number one is dangerous sport
welding divorce it is period it's also most of time the things that people yeah
yeah how many persons are there on the alien there's about 400 horses in the
peak season I don't know the specific number because some of them are private
horses we have about 400 horses the whole thing about us at Kara stores is
that the grand doesn't even own any horses they lease them home from us okay
so we're the king of the horses here interesting
and then the horses so the horses I'll leave for the winter
okay you need some horses here for the time of the greater the ones that run
24/7 365 yeah okay so we keep about 24 horses in The Wizard okay
the rest go off the guys okay now there's some folks in our area that have
actually brought their horses over here and rode on the island so you know do
anything about that how do you go about that okay interesting
are there any bad no there's maybe about ten left what
happened to that white nose think about why is that it's a type of fungal spore
that's found the caves in California and then when people come here and don't
wash their clothes the spores just spread to whatever love is they have
those suits and then when they wear those clothes and bike into the
backwoods it spreads all over the island and they are cannot and their immune
system was not qualified to deal with it so it just okay they are giving
okay guys tell me what you think about your first time riding on a horse taxi