Another proud day for us as James receives his Practical French Certificate.

Nothing better than pot roast day! This was such a pretty dish that Mom made up we had to recognize it.

I think this was our first visit to the Blue Festival since the pandemic. It was an extremely hot day, mid nineties to nearly one hundred degrees. The first thing we noticed was the attendance was down, probably due to the extreme temperatures.

Mom got to see a few bands while James and Dad explored Marshall. We stopped in to visit the American Museum of Magic and took the tour. They had removed their stage since our last visit and we found a peppers ghost effect that we played with where your face turns into a skull.

After we rejoined Mom we did a little shopping. Mom got her poster and t-shirt and everyone was happy. Too bad it was so hot but hey, thats summer in Michigan. We all had a great time and it was good to get back to normal after a long layoff for us in attending this festival.
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Great day today as James receives two important documents, a scholarship for $4,000 and his Bachelors Degree Diploma. Congrats James, we are so proud of you.

What a fun day this was for Dad with all sorts of great gifts (including Fathers Day Dinner of course). Thanks to Mom and James for coordinating the events and making this such a special moment.

Most of the time our kitties eat and sleep, however when one of them is looking intently outside the window, there is usually something going on. In this case, our kitty Hoot was staring intently through the window looking into our backyard. We did not notice anything but Hoot continued the intent staring. We took out our camera to zoom in and see what was going on, the lo and behold, there was a cute little bunny rabbit hiding by one of our bushes in the backyard.

I guess Hoot was making sure that the bunny rabbit did not enter her “domain”.

We could not understand why the Walmart parking lot was packed at 7am, but it turned out their was a hot wheel convention going on. Plenty of booths and many life size cars were on display. Mary took advantage of this event and met the cheeto cheetah.

This was our first visit to Frankenmuth this year and we spent most of the time in the Frankenmuth mall. We did our usual stop at the cupcake store (it won cupcake wars on television years ago), the book store, the arcade, and the souvenir shops. Perhaps our best stop was at the barbecue shop where you could sample as many barbecue sauces as you liked. We each bought a favorite and had a great time sampling everything.

After leaving Frankenmuth antique stores we headed to Past Tense in Lapeer Michigan where we picked up some Spring items for the yard.
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