Sunny Days

Wednesday
Xuemin came to the cafeteria during lunch with a Taiwanese gal named Lydia who just arrived in the morning. Xuemin and I brought Lydia downtown to take a look, showing her places such as ferry docks, banks, post office, clothing and fudge shops. It was a bright and sunny day. I went out in tshirt and jeans becos it was warm.

random pic of a couple in traditional costumes

Xuemin bought a strawberry milkshake; view of the Mackinac Island Public Library

the one and only school on the island

Grand Hotel in the background

Little Stone Church near the Grand Hotel

We visited an art gallery where there were paintings of different aspects of the island

paintings of the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Bridge etc

simply beautiful

Views from outside and inside the Visitors' Center gift shop

Worked at the Round Island from 5pm-11:15pm. There were only 2 servers and 2 DRAs including me. One of our closing tasks is to set up the buffet breakfast tables and equipment for the next day. All of them were relatively new and I wasn't sure about the setup too. Luckily Alex came to help me after knocking off from Bistro or else I probably won't be able to knock off before midnight.

Thursday
Alex and I went to look for Bonnie to verify our hours for the last paycheck before gg for lunch. After lunch we went to find Stella, Maurine, Huijun and Lydia to go downtown together. Maurine and Huijun wanted to eat pancakes so we went into a pancake shop and ordered 3 different kinds of pancakes to share. Each person paid abt 3+. I thought it would hava been better if they were piping hot. Stella went to the post office to settle some stuff and she's working at 4pm so she asked us not to wait for her. The remaining 5 of us went back to the resort. Alex and I went back to our room to take the island map and changed into berms cos it was quite warm. We made our way to the Sugar Loaf and Fort Holmes (another 2 attractions on the island). Lydia was meeting Xuemin after her work to go Butterfly house so she didn't follow us. We took a lot of photos during the trip, will upload soon once I got them from Alex.

We came back for dinner at 5:30pm, after that Alex and I went to check our work schedules for the upcoming week before sharing an ice-cream at the Lakeside Marketplace. Maurine, Huijun also accompanied us. We went to sit at the lawn chairs to relax for a while before returning to our rooms to wash up. On the way back to our room, Alex and I attempted the EuroBungy where we did somersaults on a trampoline, making use of ropes to secure us. It was quite fun but tiring after a while. We also experienced some giddiness, part of the post-jump effects I suppose. We had a discussion on the upcoming road trip again and we are clear on the attractions to go. Alex will be coming up an itinerary with time schedules and some maps.

My schedule for the upcoming week:
12 June - 10-? (Bistro)
13 June - 5pm-close (round island)
14 June - 10-? (Bistro)
15 June - 6am-12pm (round island)
16 June - 18 June OFF for road trip (Toronto/Niagara Falls/Saginaw)