How To Begin A New Year...

... with a Wolverine victory over the Gophers!

Love,
Ben

Michigan vs Iowa State

We drove down to Ames to see Michigan play Iowa State. Dad got to visit with friends of his from college who are now on the ISU faculty and then we watched Michigan lose to a tough Cyclone team.  It was a good game and worth the trip.

Love,
Ben and Cameron

Go Blue!

Too bad Michigan lost today.

Love,
Ainsley

Let's Go.... Pink?

I was all dressed up and ready to go for the Michigan game today, only I was wearing pink instead of blue. I was even in my Michigan gear before Daddy.





Love,
Ainsley

Our Visit to Michigan - Day 3

On our last full day in Michigan, we just hung out around Grandma and Grandpa's house. Grandpa got Daddy's old toys down from the attic. Cameron rode the tractor everywhere.





After a while, we went to Diehl's cider mill and had some good, freshly pressed, unpasteurized cider and some cinnamon sugar donuts fresh from the fryer. Delicious.



After visiting with some of Daddy's friends, we had a nice dinner and took this family picture.



This morning, we got up super early and flew home on an airplane.

Love,
Ben and Cameron

Our Visit to Michigan - Day 2

On our second day in Michigan, we went to the Detroit Zoo. Here we are in front of the Rackham Fountain.


We also went to see the penguins, which was one of our Daddy's favorites growing up.


Then we made our way to the Arctic Ring of Life exhibit, which was awesome.



They had a big polar bear statue right near the entrance.


They also had a tunnel that you could walk through underwater and see the seals and polar bears swim over you.



We also got a good glimpse of the polar bears from our zoo, the Como Park zoo. Here is one of them. We think it is Neil.


We also passed this cute elephant statue and took a picture.


The last thing we did was to go into the butterfly house and walk around. Here is Ben next to a really big butterfly.



Love,
Ben and Cameron

PS: If you ever shopped at Oakland Mall growing up, like our Daddy did, you might remember this hippo used to be outside of Hudson's. It's not here at the zoo!

Our Visit to Michigan - Day 1

Today was our first full day of visiting Michigan for MEA weekend. Today, we went to Ann Arbor to see where Daddy went to college.

It was about lunch time that we got there, so we went to Zingerman's for lunch. It is a famous deli.



Then, we went to campus and visited something called "The Diag."



On The Diag, we met the Michigan basketball team and they autographed posters for us.


We had this nice family photo in front of the graduate library.



And then Daddy took this picture of us in front of West Engineering. It is now called "West Hall."


We got a bunch of souvenirs and then we ran through the law quad.


We also went over by the Union and made the cube spin.


We were pretty wiped out by then, so we went to Aunt Mee and Uncle Dale's house, where Ben tried on a life size Terry Sawchuck jersey, which way very big.


Love,
Ben and Cameron