Ramada Plaza Grand Rapids Mi

... little town. I reckon postcards wouldn’t do it justice. Trace and I spent many hours walking the lovely tree-lined streets marvelling at perfect little houses and their perfect little lawns, which were a shade of green not of this earth I tell you. Everybody we passed on the street gave us a massive smile and a greeting, and smelled of apple pie......I swear I heard the cogs whirring inside one of them when he turned, smiled like a mass murdering ...

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 …

... lake looks like it comes up and under the cabin, VERY nice. It is very quite here so much so that the only sound are fingers on keyboard, or is it just my hearing. Anyway, very nice and I have made contact with the model for tomorrow and all sounds good. And so that's a wrap for today.

Since I had so much fun with our Paris travel blog, I thought I'd do another one for our trip to the UK (Billericay, Essex, specifically). Even though our trip is still five months away, I wanted to start blogging now because I've recently begun having dreams about this trip. More like nightmares to me, but Steve says they don't qualify as nightmares because I'm not being chased by monsters. I don't recall having any dreams about ...

... anyone. There's a great deal of debate on the travel blogs about what to wear. I didn't think too much about it as I usually wear business casusal attire in mostly black, but then I thought about Steve: he's always wearing jeans and a t-shirt. So I bought him some nice button-up shirts to wear over there, which I hope carry over to being worn at home as well. I guess jeans are no longer taboo in ...

... are great. The gargantuan serving of soft breadsticks and sugary, runny sauce are to kill for. The big, amply-topped pizzas are always the best meal I´ve ever had. Oh, mmmm! Sometimes, I miss this place more than my family. 4. THE GREAT LAKES - North Bar Lake, a deep dune-threatened lake a stone´s throw from Great Lake Michigan, is my second-favorite place in the world (after Ft. Desoto Beach, Florida). Lake Michigan is full of soft sand beaches ...

Looking back on my hard-fought "Competition of the Week" 4 victory, I would have to attribute my success to MODERN ODDYSEUS' GUIDE TO ALWAYS WINNING # 4 - Do it to make your girlfriend proud. And boy, let me tell you, I was as excited as only a boyfriend could be, when I called up my Brasiliana the next day to hear how proud she'd be that I wore 79 articles of clothing at once. And she was proud. Naturally. Only, her news wasn't so good: she was breaking up with me. This ...

... s a good friend, and Pat ... well, we don't really care about Pat." "Let's do it," I said. A few minutes later, we were joined in the kitchen by: our big, baby-faced pal, Bill; my brother, Brandon; Jason's girlfriend, Michelle; and my brother's friend, Pat. The others waited anxiously for their first taste of sweetchum. Jason and I took six spoons, a bowl almost big enough to swim in, and we began shaving the ice. Jason's girlfriend said, "Sweetchum? That ...