Courtyard By Marriott Grand Rapids Downtown

... 8221; in response to our waitresses constant questioning regarding the food and our comfort. One must placate the beast at all costs to prevent attack. The place and the people were really creeping us out....but we’re not the kind of people to turn down a good American Buffet so we agreed to stick it out on condition that we run at the first sight of anyone wearing any form of hooded cloak or carrying a sword.

We decided to cut our trip short by ...

So I head off today on this big adventure! I will be in Amsterdam for 3 days and then I head off to Arusha on Sunday with my group. I am full of excitement and nerves and I can't wait to learn and experience everything this semester will offer. There will be many stories and photos (if I can find somewhere to upload them) to follow. 
Love and peace to everyone I will miss you!

-Molly

Well, this is just a welcome to my newly-formed travel blog. I've been in Holland for most of the summer, and I am going home in a day and a half to spend the next two weeks with my family. Holland has been good for me... I don't think I could have spent another summer working at my high school job in Red Wing. But hey, who says you can't go home?

Tuesday 7/28

Photography day is here or was. Dan the model called to ask permission to bring a model friend along and so did. Started at 10 am and finished at about 2pm having made over 1000 images. Now the processing of those images, down to a very few, begins when I get back in town. Dan and Braxton both said it was fun and I had a good time as well. Time to think about supper and getting this place cleaned up. Tomorrow its back to da lake and …

Mon 7/27

Did the breakfast thing and then headed out for Grand Rapids home of ____. Am now at the cabin on Lake Whatever, some 16 miles north of GR. The sun has set, the sky is light gray and there is a very nice reflection of that sky on the lake surface. From where I am setting ...

... li>Less than 20% of Haitians age 15 and over can read and write.

... that is the Burren (including the Polnabron Dolmen); visit the 700-foot tall Cliffs of Moher, Lahinch Village (drive by the famous links golf course there), Liscannor Rock shop, to Bunratty Folk Park and Castle. We'll stay tonight and tomorrow night at Crystal Springs Bed and Breakfast in Killarney Town, just outside the National Park Friday, Sept. 5 ...

... pain hit and wiped me out for two days. Better at home than at PAP! I have to admit this is the first day, Monday, July 2nd that I have felt back to normal. I caught a lot of sleep over the weekend and groggily caught up on some stuff. If you left messages or email I apologize for my slacking. I miss my "Haiti Family" though. They all mean a lot to me. The fact that these totally different people can come together ...

... Richard, Lorrie, and the Dianes stayed with Bill and Marla. Tom stayed at Bev's with us. Bill and Marla's was the base of operations in Marshall, so we did lots of eating, drinking, and socializing there. On Sunday, 4 April, we drove to Brookfield to visit with Steve's family. Fred especially enjoyed the grandchildren with Annie being a special attraction. After our visit there we drove to Milwaukee to stay with Cath and ...

... them on a $40 bet that he could throw a folding chair, using his left-left-left tentacle, blind-folded, and knock over only the five-pin. My middle heart was broken. Though I'd known the mysterious vixen for only a second, I must admit, I'd been in love. Crushed, I would return to work the next day, and return to digging through the mud after oysters too. Luckily, I have two hearts more. Luckily, I'm not Ernie. And luckily, this poem only took ninety seconds to type.