abi my dear, i have a break from 11:20 until 1:30 M and W, and i'm free from 10:20 on every friday. so, we can eat lunch around 11:20 - 12:30 if you have that time free.... i hope so! yay!


and kyle! yay! i'll e-mail him and tell him that my beloved toast twin is coming to the ann arbor show. make sure you go up and talk to him, he's SO great and fun to talk to. yaaay!!!!!


and now, for my day. i went to house on the rock with erin and and nate. i had TONS of fun. ok, first off... quotes.


*driving down the road, random construction guys standing on side of road...*
nate: HEY! that's my uncle!!
(it actually was... i think... crazy.)


me: erin!! stop here! i want fresh eggs!!
erin: i KNEW you'd want fresh eggs.
~re: a farm offering sweet corn and eggs, and all sorts of stuff.~


"HEY! this is where the holy ghost credit union is! score!"
~me, upon realizing we were in dubuque~


"heeey, you NEED a dale earnhardt marble!"
~nate, in an antique shop, with TONS of dale earnhardt marbles... and evil bible thumper people who glared at us the whole time.~


random sign: "need a lift? call jesus!"
someone...: it makes him sound like a taxi company...


"we could eat at the pizzeria... AKA venezuala"
~there was a sign for a pizzaria... but erin thought it said venezuela....~


"cat fish for sale - country charm beauty salon"
~a sign... in a yard... of a home salon thing... i found it amusing.~


"more shrines and gift shop in back"
~sign at the grotto in dickeyville~


ok, so first we drove to wisconsin. making minor detours to some antique shops, and attempting to go the grotto in dickeyville (we got confused and ended up driving around a bank for awhile....) then we fiiiiinally got there, and went in, and it was SO cool. i like... retraced the steps they took in American Gods... it was AWESOME. aaand, there were all these little mechanical things... and they had a couple alice in wonderland ones! and they moved when you pushed a button! it was SO cool. and there was a room of armour, and it had like... 3D war scenes... with mannequins in armour and such... and there was a WAR ELEPHANT!! it was stepping on someone. and like, throwing someone wiht it's trunk. and a war dog. it was eating someone's arm. and they both had really cool armor. it was neat. and we saw the carousel, and it made us all dizzy, just watching it. and we just went everywehre. and it was SO cool. and like, we all wanted to get shrunk so we could live in the doll houses. i can't even begin to describe it all. we took lots of pictures, i'll post highlights of them, along wiht more stories of the fun we had.


on the way home we wanted to go to a mall we'd seen a sign for... so we got lost a few times, and found it... and it was like... a grocery store. and a radio shack. that was SO exspensive, and didn't even have anything in it. and like... a manicure place... and that was the whole mall. we were SO amused. but there were TONS of people there. crazy. aaand we stopped in dubuque and rode the elevator trolley things up and down the hill. and lookd at this BEAUTIFUL bed and breakfast, and looked for nancy drew books... aaand tried to get ice cream, but failed. and we ended up going to the grotto in dickeyville, and it was SO funny. it was like...crazy. i loved the "more shrines in back!!" sign. heeehe. and there was like... a whole shrine to christopher columbus... and... there was a statue outside the crazy religious school that was there... of like... a lady getting reading to hit a kid. i was like "how welcoming!" but yeah, we had much fun. OMG!! i totally forgot the rainstorm! we got caught in a monsoon!! we couldn't seee, and we should have just stopped on the side of the road, like you're supposed to do when you can see enough to drive... but like... the road was flooding, so we didnt' want to stop. adn then a TREE (well, a little branch) hit the windshield... and it was scary. but an adventure nonetheless. ok, erin, nate, remind me if i missed anything, i'm off to bed for now. night!