T: In the morning, I woke up at 8. I had stayed up until 11 last night, which our time was 9. I tried to go play with my sister, she was a little fussy about that.
P: Don’t write that I was a little fussy about it.
T: We headed off to breakfast after packing our suitcases up. We went to breakfast . I had eggs, bacon, and potatoes. I didn’t like any of it.
P: I ate pancakes for breakfast and daddy’s coffee foam. I kept eating the foam until I was full of it. The pancakes were about as big as my head.
T: My dad was going to leave after that, so we went to the car to drop him off. My sister found out a weird way to wiggle peoples fingers and I did that to her the whole way because she insisted on it, or else she’d do it to me.
P: Yes, I would.
T: My dad was not so sorry to leave us after all.
T: We were going to drive to a museum about the Ojibwa people. We were listening to the audio book about Laura Ingalls living in the big woods of Wisconsin.
P: IT TOOK AN HOUR AND A HALF FOR US TO GET THERE.
T: Aaaaaaaannnnnnnddddd, it was closed! Phooey. 🙁 Open on all the other days but this day. We looked around the property. Then we went to the store nearby and we saw some other people wanting to go to the museum too. We told them it was closed. The three boys were very excited it was closed. Their mom was neutral.
P: The mom kind of looked disappointed.
T: They told us about some good places to go.
P: They had climbed a nearby fire tower.
T: We went to go to get some lunch because everyone was quite hungry. Me and my sister ordered chicken strips and Mac and Cheese. There were tons of bugs [Lake Flies] around, live ones and dead ones. They looked like they would bite us but they were friendly and didn’t bite.
P: I caught a lot of them. My favorite one didn’t have antennae on it’s tail. So I put it on the rocks and then I looked back and it was dead, so I made a little burying ground for it.
T: My mom was taking out her credit card to pay, and….. it dropped down under the deck where it was not accessible.
P: My mom was very disappointed and laughed about it.
T: We started driving to another museum, and we checked on it’s website and it was open. We saw a horse-drawn wagon tied up to a light post near a grocery store. We stopped and looked at it. There was stuff in the buggy, so we thought it belonged to someone who was in the store. THe horse got spooked easily.
P: It was very cute and I wanted to pet the horse.
T: Then we went to another museum. Our guide told us about the fur traders and how everyone wanted a beaver skin top hat. The mink was the softest.
P: I liked the fox and mink furs. They were so fuzzy! We went to see the wigwam…
T: Which means in Ojibwa, birch bark house.
P: There was a pretty doll and a gun (that didn’t work because it forgot one piece soooooooooo it couldn’t shoot). It was in the shape of the top half of a triangle.
T: Next our guide told us about the forts the fur traders would build. He showed us all the peoples’ room. The general of them all had the biggest room and could bring his family along. His wife was Ojibwa to help speak her native tongue. Then we got to see some people talk about the Ojibwa foods. Mostly they ate wild rice. Then we went into the museum, 15 minutes before it closed. We spent all that 15 minutes in the gift shop. We finally settled on two different kinds of maple sugar candy.
P: We ate them in the car right after we left. I put mine in my water because it was a little too sweet for me. The water got really sweet. I loved it.
T: We started to drive to our hotel. We didn’t know where it was, so it took us kind of a long time to find it. Finally we found it and went to the swimming pool where there were lots of people.
P: I went in the hot tub!!! My mom found a penny and I went diving for it.
T: We showered and headed back to the room. We went to the casino where there were lots of people gambling, and smoking and drinking. But on the others side, there was food. You each got a credit card. You’d go over to a booth, pick out what you wanted, handed them your credit card, they swiped it, and you’re good to go. Even me and my sister got credit cards.
P: The pizza was kind of disgusting, so I got potstickers, and they made me wait for 5 minutes for the food to be ready.
T: I got pizza with pepperoni and mozzarella cheese. And it got mashed potatoes. A very big serving. Then I ate almost all of it! It was so delicious. I didn’t care for the gambling at all. Then a lady told us that a man had been stealing from a purse of a lady who was gambling. Luckily he was caught. And I have a really loose, wiggly tooth. We headed back to our hotel and we got ready and we went to sleep. Good night.
P: Tonight I am going to cuddle with my mother.