May 10th 2004

Lets make that another good weekend, this time new place, Minnesota!!

This was my first trip home in tooo long, so i was just excited to get home! This trip was a little extended as i took off early thursday night to stop in Ironwood. Me and Roos were the only two on this trip, we pulled into Anthonys house and watched him and his buddies play poker, much to my surprise they all knew my name, and yelled "Babbbs" when walked in. Eventually i understood it as a good joke ;). I lost $5 playing poker with them, but it was fun, and one of them cheated -_-. (I would have lost anyways). After a few hours of that we quit, watched the final half of the last Friends show ever.. great times to that show back in Texas :P, and other times! Finally all the guys took off we went for a trip to Hurley, down back into Ironwood and visted an old FLLC friend named Molly, nice girl! Then we went back and got some sleep!

Finally Friday rolled around and me and Roos were ready to go! We got up early with Anthony and went to first hour with him. We walked in, everyone stared, probably because Dan was so ugly, but we'll never know for sure :s. I of course went out of my way to find people i know, i only found Little Molly from camp, she had no idea who I was, but i refreshed her memory, it was fun! I met a girl named Britney, she was a nice girl :D. First hour was ok we watched a video about MLK, and giggled a bit. The substitute teacher thought we were actual students there.. we just nodded, and past notes to people :P. After Ironwood we drove for about 45 until we got to Ashland, on the other side of Ashland from Michigan is a Visitors Center. Me and Dan checked that out, it was interesting, mostly a bird observatory. We looked at the little museum, then left. Our next stop was the first school we could find! It was getting close to Lunchtime! We got to the town of Maple, and saw a sign for there high school, slammed on the breaks turned around and parked. We sat for a moment deciding where to go in, when we spotted a young girl walk in a side door, we quickly followed her! We entered the school and were stared at, we were stared at the whole time, we entered the lunch room, everything stopped.. they just stared. We talekd to a few girls, they were nice they told us there was about 250 kids at the school. Finally we got a small tour, and were then kicked out of the school, so we continued our trip. Finally we arrived in Duluth, we had already decided we needed to stop in one more lunch period, so there we were in Duluth East High School. We walked in behind a small group of students, and were unnoticed. We sat down amongst the hundreds of kids, bought some fries, and finally talked to a few girls. Finally there lunch period was over, so we left. Our final stop was at the Black Bear Casino, where i lost five dollars :(

Saturday was the big St. Stephens reunion! Festivities were fun at Lake George, we ate some cheese, cheeseburgers, cheesecurds, cheesenuggests... err maybe just hot dogs :) It was nice seeing everyone. Thank You Elena for making that happen! Afterwards we went out to Billy's then finished the nights at Alex's. It was the usual crew (tony, alex, elena, laura, sarah, and matt) plus a few others like Dan (ugly), Katie, Linsday Meritz (phone), and Lindsay Stadler. Great times were had, and finally sleep hapened.

The drive back was Tiger, Dan, and I, we had fun! You should too!

-Mike