49 years ago The Edmund Fitzgerald sunk on Lake Superior about 17 miles from Whitefish Bay, Michigan. Every year while on our trip up to Canada just before passing thru Superior, Wisconsin into Duluth, Minnesota, we always stop at a McDonald’s that had a large photo of the Edmund Fitzgerald in their lobby. I wish I had bought that painting last time I was there but unfortunately they’ve remodeled by now so it’s long gone but the legend lives on 🙏🏻🙏🏻

I went for breakfast and ended up getting two Minons/Jurassic Park/Shrek ones (the Shrek glasses had lead in them and ended the long McDonald’s glasses tradition so that was pretty funny) and two McDonald’s character ones. They’re plastic but good plastic (like what kids’ cups are made of). Will I go back for lunch? Maybe. Dinner? Likely. And then live with the realization that I spent $120 at McDonald’s in one day just to get 16 plastic cups…”for the kids”! (while ignoring their pleas for Happy Meals… which have Panini stickers in them now, ironically)

Anyway, here’s what two of them look like... havw fun!