{"id":27,"date":"2009-08-09T21:12:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T02:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2009-08-16T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T15:47:45","slug":"hanging-in-the-playpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Hanging in the Playpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We decided to try out the Playpen today.\u00a0 The Playpen is the area in Lake Michigan just off Navy Pier\u00a0that is surrounded by\u00a0harbor walls and\u00a0is thus very calm waters.\u00a0\u00a0Powerboaters and\u00a0yachts and\u00a0jet\u00a0skis\u00a0boat over to the area and then park for the day.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite the scene.\u00a0 It has always looked like fun but we&#8217;ve never taken the time to go check it out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_28\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28\" title=\"IMG_2581\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_2581-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Playpen in Lake Michigan in front of the Hancock\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_2581-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_2581-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Playpen in Lake Michigan in front of the Hancock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Weather today was forecasted to be in the\u00a090&#8217;s with heat index<\/p>\n<p>of 105,\u00a0so we figured this was a perfect time to anchor in the lake and\u00a0play in the water.\u00a0 When we got there, there were already a ton of boats and jet skis and rafts&#8230; one yacht even had it&#8217;s own private helicopter aboard.\u00a0 We knew we were in the &#8220;fancy&#8221; part of the lake!\u00a0 We inflated\u00a0some\u00a0tubes and floated off the boat for awhile.\u00a0 The\u00a0weather\u00a0started looking a little dicey, so we\u00a0decided to head in before Amy got too paranoid and freaked out by the high waves.\u00a0\u00a0 All in all, the\u00a0Playpen was a nice area, but too many boats and idiot powerboat drivers made\u00a0Mike nervous that we were going to get run down in our tubes.\u00a0 Maybe we&#8217;ll stick to further off-shore\u00a0with miles between boats\u00a0for more\u00a0peace and tranquility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29\" style=\"width: 551px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29\" title=\"IMG_2595\" src=\"http:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_2595-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lounging on the tubes\" width=\"551\" height=\"318\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lounging on the tubes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We decided to try out the Playpen today.\u00a0 The Playpen is the area in Lake Michigan just off Navy Pier\u00a0that is surrounded by\u00a0harbor walls and\u00a0is thus very calm waters.\u00a0\u00a0Powerboaters and\u00a0yachts and\u00a0jet\u00a0skis\u00a0boat over to the area and then park for the day.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite the scene.\u00a0 It has always looked like fun but we&#8217;ve never taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miamyke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}