INTERNET!!!!!

You don't realize how much you use the internet until you can't use it anymore.  Nicole and I had an unbelievably amazing week in Manistique, MI.  The family we stayed with was AWESOME!!!!!  They included us in everything we had meals together, game nights, ice cream nights, nights with Grandparents and they even toured us out to the tourist spots in Manistique.  We had breakfast Tuesday morning with the local Kiwanis, the group that helped fundraise the money to bring us in.  Another great group of people.  Also that week in Manistique was the replica of the Vietnam wall. Very moving and eye opening.  It was indescribable how open and honest this family was.  It was really hard to leave on Sunday and drive to our next town.  Hartford, WI was pretty weird  after Manistique.  It was the first week that we had to cut kids.  That was really hard.  To see the faces of all the kids that didn't get cast was really sad and heartbreaking.  We did discover The Mineshaft.  A restaurant down town that had a game room upstairs where we earned tickets for cheap plastic prizes.  So of course we spent some money and won some tickets, had some fun and got some decorations for Frank, our truck.  In addition to the Mold-O-Rama items from the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI, he now has several plastic soldiers, jumping frogs, bouncy balls, and a plastic die.  Very much a lot of fun had at the Mineshaft in downtown Hartford, WI.  I'm ready to be done for awhile.  We have one week in Oconto Falls, WI and then our final week in South Milwaukee, WI.  Then we are done for two weeks and I get to come home!!!!!!  I can't wait.