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May 20, 2008

We're in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. That's in the U.P. (Upper Pensinsula) . We're going to stay here for 3 nights, then head west towards Missoula, MT, seeing sites along the way. We've never been this far north in Michigan, and I've never been to Wisconsin or Minnesota, so that'll be interesting. The temp here is 38 degrees, gale force winds I think, and raining off and on. And I packed my flip flops and Hawaiin dress! We drove up here to see the Soo Locks, the locks that every ship and freighter must go through from Lake Superior to Lake Huron and vice versa. These Great Lakes are so interesting, such a different lifestyle than what we're used to. Also the speech is different. I was told today that the weather right now is crazy-- pronounced like "Eeeet's crizy" with a long "e" in the first word and a short "i" in the second word, very nasal. I finally found my diet cherry vanilla Dr. Pepper, but the expiration date was yesterday, plus they charge 10 cents a can for bottle deposit, which added $1.50 to the total! I said no thank you and put them back, especially since they were expired and could have been flat. Then my groceries were put in a paper bag--they have no plastic bags at this small grocery store! Yesterday Alan and I were sitting in the MH and looked out the window and saw clouds of millions of tiny flies. We've named them May flies, and they were everywhere. They were on the MH, on the windows, and this morning he had to brush the slides off before the slides could be brought in. Here's a picture of the flies on the window and in the air--millions of them. When you go outside they were in your face!

As you can see in the top pictures of Alan, he's growing his moustache again. We took pictures of each other for our geni website profile pages. Okay, that's all for today. I'm going to try and keep up with this blogging, but I have to learn how to put the pictures in the right spot on the post!

Mimi