Hello! This will hopefully be my last update from Mel's house! It has been a busy week though.
Tuesday, Mel goes to a park and sells phones at a market that sets up there. We went with! So did Madison. Mel was stuck at her table, but we were bored a bit so Madison took us exploring in the park! She took pictures for us, too!
The park has a Little Sharing Library! Is a box on a post, where anyone can come and take a book, or leave one.
Then Aaron and I played in the trees for a while.
Then we just sat and enjoyed the sunshine for a while. It was a nice day. Aaron and I talked about our upcoming travels. he is moving on the same time I am, he is going the the Netherlands. I will miss him.
We checked in with Mel sometimes, and played on her table when there were no customers, which was most of the time, sadly. We liked looking at the pictures of HER travels!
Wednesday was busy too! Madison and her cousin wanted to go to the pool, and Mel is always up for going swimming, so we all went! The pool is at the local high school. Some of the teams were there practicing in the other end of the pool.
Aaron was thinking about jumping off the driving board, so I was ready with rescue equipment. Luckily he didn't, so I got to stay dry.
After swimming we went for frozen yogurt, which is popular treat now The girls called it FroYo. We could put whatever toppings we wanted on. The girls shared with us.
Then Thursday! Mel was asked to put some photos in a book about West Michigan, so since the day was lovely, Mom and Mads came with us all and we went to look or and take photos of the next two lighthouses down the coast of Lake Michigan, from Grand Haven. The walking was nice, and so was seeing the water and birds.
Parking for the walk to the Holland light was next to Lake Macatawa and some very posh houses and a yacht club.
We read some of the history. Then Mom sat and waited for us, she didn't want to walk so much.
We walked all the way to the end, like we did in Grand Haven. Madison helped is take pictures most of the time, because Mel had her big camera doing artsy photos.
There are dunes along the lake here, too. Madison had just gone exploring on the dunes as a class trip, so she told u all about it.
Then we all got back into the car and went down south more, to South Haven. It sounds like Grand Haven, and the lighthouse is a lot the same too! It just doesn't have the big square house at the end. There were a lot of people there too, even though clouds had come in and blocked some of the sunshine.
Another thing South Haven had that Grand Haven didn't was a PIRATE SHIP! They take out school kids and tourists for sails on the lake. They even fired a canon! We were all excited that they came back into the channel wile we were there so we could see it.
Then we had a yummy dinner and went home to sleep. ^_^
And now today, it is packing day! It's Sunday, so no mail today, but Mel is getting us ready to go tomorrow. We got to pick from some goodies to take with us. Aaron is going too, and so is Buzz! he is going to Russia! I hope it goes better for him that his trip to Portugal!
Then Mel let us all go through her postcard box to pick one to send to our new hosts.
I sure hope mine likes what I chose... I am excited to travel! I hope to talk to you again soon! I miss you!