Friday I took the train over to MI from Milwaukee. I always enjoy taking the train to visit my friend Rachel. But something funny always seems to happen during the trip. This time it was my seat partner. It was so busy in Chicago that my friend Erin and I did not get to sit together on the train. So I sat with a nice looking man. I happened to be finishing up a conversation with my co-worker about our organ playing schedule for church. The man I was sitting by ...

This trip was to visit my friend Rachel who lives in Michigan. She works at a Early Childhood Learning Center, so she doesn't get summer break like the rest of us. Thus we visit her. Claire, Erin, and I drove over to Michigan in trusty Betsy. I will be very sad when Betsy will no longer be able to drive us everywhere! Erin and I are allergic to cats, so instead of staying at Rachel's cat-filled apartment, we decided to go camping. I don't know what we were thin...

So this is the last day of my Fantastic 5 trip. Pretty sad. We've had such a fun time together. We let ourselves sleep in, a little bit, before we headed over to Nass' center. We hung around for a little over an hour talking and playing with the kids. We are definitely teachers through and through. :-) After that we went straight to Ann Arbor, home of the University of Michigan. We walked around the downtown college streets. For lunch we went to an amazing restau...

I didn't die. That’s how we started our conversations with our parents today. That’s because most of us went para sailing this morning! None of us have done it before. Oh, was it worth it! That was such an amazing opportunity. I’m a little bummed that we didn’t bring our cameras. No one is going to believe us that 4 elementary school teachers went para sailing. I thought that it would be rough and a little uncomfortable, but it was the tot...

Wow, was today a long day! We woke up early early early for sunrise. It was really pretty, but very early. The sun came up in vivid pinks and oranges over the lake. And it was so still and quiet out. After sleeping for a few more hours, we woke up for adventurizing around Mackinac Island. We took the Shepler's Ferry over to the island. We rode on the top of the ferry, which was pretty chilly. Welke was frozen, understandably. We got there and started exploring ar...