Weekend of Fun!

Hiya. This weekend the house was filled with guests. My four of my friends from Wausau came up on Friday night for a game night. We also had amazing pasties for dinner. My mom was a good host. Marla and Jenette stayed over that night and on Saturday we want shopping on the main street in Rhinelander, went to the logging museum, frisbee golfed, played air hockey and mini-golfed. It was a very fun time with friends. I am thankful that I have such great friends. They are lots of fun.

My grandma and Aunt Kathy were also here for the weekend. Last night we played a few mean games of Scrabble. I never win at that game. People always put pressure on me to be good at those kinds of games because I was an English major. That does not mean that I am good at finding words, goodness quit pressuring me! Haha.

The house is kinda quiet now that all of the company is gone. Summer is flying by and I do not care for that flying. This week will be kinda laid back and then the next weekend my mom is taking me to New York City. Cool, huh? Marla and Janette(Utah Janette!) will be joining us. We will be there from the 30th to the 3rd of August. Then I will have a few days here and off to Utah I go again. It really feels like I just got off that plane a week ago. Crazy that I have been here over a month. I will quit talking about this because it is depressing!

NYC will be awesome though. Look for me on Good Morning America because we are going to the Kelly Clarkson concert in Central Park on July 31st. Nice. I will be the crazy one with a sign that will have a picture of Kelly at the Orem concert. Nice. Marla will probably have a sign that says: "I do not know her." It will also have an arrow pointing to me. It will be fun. We also plan to catch Wicked on Broadway and see all the tourist sights. It is going to be a great ending to The Summer of Fun! I am way excited.

A week from tomorrow I will have my tooth yanked. It has been giving me issues, so I decided to have it taken out here. Mom wanted me to have it fixed before flying to NYC so I got an appointment. Hopefully having that done four days before flying to New York won't pose any problems.

Well, life is good here. Hope yours is too!

Thought you would like to see some of my status updates from Facebook from the last two days!

Alice is watching The Bachelorette and eating Wisconsin string cheese. Pretty good start to the day, I would say! :) (TUESDAY AM)

Alice "When was the last time you dropped the waterline and risked revealing yourself to someone who mattered?" This is from the great book: Be the Hero You've been Waiting for by Yvonne and Rich Dutra-St. John. Read this book. It WILL change your life!
(TUESDAY SOMETIME)

Alice thinks it is silly to shower before going to play softball but also feels she should. Who knows, looks like it could get rained out today. Game is at 7:15 at Sunnyvale Park #2 if anybody wants to watch!
(TUESDAY AFTERNOON)

Alice won! Okay so her team won...not just her. Go ADC GO!
(TUESDAY EVENING)

Alice needs to quit playing bejeweled.
(WEDNESDAY MORNING)

Alice is itchy on her ankles. I think something is biting me while I waste time on the computer.
(IN THE LAST FIVE MINUTES)

I think you can learn a lot about somebody through their status!

Wisdom From Dad

My mom, dad and I were out at the firepit tonight enjoying a fire and
a beautiful evening and discussing how the DNR has a hard time keeping
track of the moving deer population when my dad said: "It is very
easy to count the deer in Wisconsin. You just count their legs and
divide by four!"

I thought you would enjoy that tidbit of information. My dad is a silly guy!

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A little writing before you enjoy the two slide shows from Lake Superior!

I had a great time on a trip with my mom and sister this last week. We left on Wednesday morning to make the three and a half hour trip. It was a gorgeous day! We ate at a Restaurant in Ashland, WI. It was right on Lake Superior and the view was awesome.

When we got to Bayfield, WI, we decided to have adventure right away. We parked near the ferry to Madeline Island and got on the first ferry to the island. Madeline Island has about 200 year round residents. The population swells to over 2,000 during the summer months. It is definitely a touristy town. We went to the museum, hit the shops and went to Tom's Burned Down Cafe. Basically, the rumor is that Tom's bar burned down and the town wouldn't allow him to rebuild so he put up a tent and ran the bar from there. Pretty cool place.

We then headed to our awesome condo hotel room. It was right on the lake with a real cool patio that overlooked the lake. Awesome.

The next day we took a cruise around the Apostle Islands. There are 21 islands total and they are all gorgeous. The rumor on the name is that the people who first discovered the islands thought there were only 12 islands and named them for the 12 Apostles. The highlight of the cruise was Devil's Island. There were cool little caves on the side of the island and the lighthouse was nice too. We also got to see the lighthouse on Raspberry Island which was also gorgeous.

We then drove home with a stop in Boulder Junction where there is a man who makes really cool birdhouses and sells them on the side of the road for three and five dollars. Quirky little cute place.

We got home around ten and stopped for pizza at The Claridge. That is the bar where I spend time playing trivia in the summer. It was the first time I had stopped there and it was nice and kinda weird because one of my friends from here died back in January. We would always meet at The Claridge and play trivia together. I had not been there since Jim passed and it was weird to be there knowing that he would never be there again. SIGH.

Just having a quiet weekend at home with mom and dad. It is nice.

Watch the next two slide shows and ENJOY!