Saturday 2/25

I woke up at 6.30am on the very first day of spring break. Jen came to Baits 2 to pick me and Cher Yang up, and we headed to Michigan Union to wait for another car (we had 2 Ford Taurus to transport our group of 10 people). We pulled off at about 7.45am. We took turns to drive, and I was the driver of the second shift. A bad choice it seems, as the traffic near Chicago was not as smooth as traffic in other areas. Besides, there were a lot of tolls in the state of Illinois, which was a weird thing because there’s none along the Interstates in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The journey from Ann Arbor to Minneapolis took us about 10 hours, as we reached there about 6.30pm in the evening (there’s one hour time difference as Minnesota is in Central Time Zone).

We were welcomed by Mark and his wife Marjorie. They would be the host for us for the following week (they’re among the nicest people I’ve seen). Mark is a teacher in the Como Elementary school. After a brief introduction session, we headed to a Chinese restaurant to have dinner. As it was Alex’s birthday, we went to buy a birthday cake and gave her a surprise. We had another discussion about stuff that we’ll do for the week, and we called it a day at about 11.30pm.




In the chinese restaurant