By Vivian — Up near Mackinaw City there was a place called Headlands. It is a park, and in the park was the Dark Sky Park. It was a one-mile walk to the Dark Sky Park. There were pictures (they were plastic cutouts and about as big as me) of philosophers and gods and what they had to do with planets and constellations. When we walked past them, my dogs Bandit and Trixie barked and growled at them. After the first two Trixie stopped, but Bandit kept barking at them — except the very last one. After the first two I would pick Bandit up and walk him up to the picture and he would just growl at them, but unless I would do that he would not go near them.
When we got to the beach, we set up the chairs and sat down. To our left there was this nice man. He sat down next to me after he asked, because nobody was sitting there. He knew some constellations and he told me about Walleye. He left before it became completely dark. We saw planets — Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury. We also saw constellations like the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, a bear one, and Scorpio. All through my mom’s phone app of course.
On the way back to the car, tons of people brought their cars in on a one-lane road, and that was because they ignored the sign that said “No cars. Foot traffic only.” So when we left, tons of people who were trying to leave with their cars were stuck on the one-lane road. So it was dark, with tons of cars trying to get out, but we did not have to walk that far. There were mostly adults there, so I just did not get it. When we got back to the parking lot we shut the gate so that maybe people would pay attention to the sign, but then someone in a car came up, got out of the car, moved the sign, and went on his way without shutting it again. The Dark Sky Park was very cool and very fun. I liked it a lot.
The Sutherlands 