Sunday, May 30, 2004

We're in the middle of the Memorial Day Holiday weekend here in the United States. I get six paid holidays a year. The Memorial Day holiday marks the unofficial start of "summer". I'm ready!

My brother and his family are down from "up north". Yesterday was a beehive of activity.

  • Parade. The Memorial Day Parade is much shorter than the Michigan Day Parade. I believe it lasted about 21 minutes.

  • Tour of Michigan State's Campus. My brother's oldest daughter is looking at colleges, so of course we had to put in our bid for good old MSU. We had a great walk through the Music buildings, past the library and museum, down to the Red Cedar River, then finished at the beautiful Beal Gardens.

  • Shrek2. I never saw Shrek, but that doesn't matter. It's a cute movie, and I love the ending.

  • The Mall. We were down to just three of us by this time (the wimps) but we had fun!

  • Playing a dare game with the Bertie Bott's Jelly Bellies. Sardines was the flavor that caused the most drop-outs.

  • Cranium. The game. A good team game. Especially good as the "old farts" won.!
There's a picnic brewing in a couple of hours, so I must go now! Have a great day!