Say ya to da U.P. eh!

This is only the beginning. Here are a few of the pictures from the Jr. High Mission trip to the U.P.

We start with lunch on Lake Michigan, where we found this sailboat. In the boat were two peices of laminated paper. One was a Bible verse, the other was the name of a couple and their phone number (a Detroit area code). We signed the sail (it told us to) and set it back out to "sea".

Heather and I stopped in the Yooperland Gift shop. There are incriminating photos from this stop... but we had fun. She had this bumper sticker on the trip up, stuck it in her window, rolled down the window and it blew away! So we made the pit stop so she could pick up another one!

Heather is finnish. We honked anyways.

Where's Rocky?

Here's the lighthouse from McLain State Park. If you look at a map, it's all the way up in the U.P. past Houghton, in the little land that juts out. It's pretty far north! Almost as far as you can go!

This is me, with my feet in cold Lake Superior. The water temp was only in the 50's, which was a warm front.

That did not stop the kids from swimming in it! They were out there for at least an hour. We're lucky we didn't lose anybody to frost bite! They agreed that maybe Lake Michigan was warm after all!

Here's the sunset over Lake Superior. The sun didn't hit the horizon until 10:50pm. It was pretty cool. It was still light until midnight!

Here are all the kids leaning over the stairwell that they painted in Marquette First United Methodist church. They also painted a hallway, but I never got a picture of that! It was originally 1960's golden rod. We painted it a nice neutral cream color. They did a great job!


Heather and I had run out to the van to get something out of it, we've forgotten now, and this is what we found. The pretzels jumped ship! Oh well, it was a rental! We cleaned them out best we could. But when we returned it Tuesday night, we found more stow-aways. We left them for the birds.

I still have pictures of Mackinac Island to post. I am also adding pictures to the Jr. High blog. Yum, fudge, I'm going to go eat some now!