Our Little Adventure-
Day four- We went to Michigan more specifically Frankenmuth. It is the World's Largest Christmas store. I have wanted to go there for years, and it came to mind it is on the east side of Michigan. Mark called John because John and Katie said I would love it. While we were there we went to the military museum, and Oma's restaurant. At the Christmas shop I found exactly what I came for.
At the military museum Hans was impressed by everything although he loved sneaking in between the tires.

Saturday night/ Sunday morning we arrived and stayed at the Frankenmuth hotel with the five pools. It was the perfect place to stay with Hans. He enjoyed the toddler pools and the water fall pool, but his favorite was the hot tub pool. The reason was it had bubbles.

Hanzie's supermodel pose karate chopping the water.

Day 3- We went to Niagara Falls. Mark and I were going to go back to the city for the day, but I just needed a day break from people. We decided that Niagara Falls would be perfect. We drove and I entered an approximate address, but as we got closer we called Adam. He gave us the exact directions but when I inputted it told us to turn around. I told Mark not to listen to it, but he did. After an hour of driving back Mark looked at it and it was sending us back to 3rd st New York city not 3rd st Niagara Falls. At first we were frustrated, but we ended up laughing about it and called Adam to tell him what had happened.

Since we were at Niagara we decided to go home through Canada. Mark filled up with gas in Canada. He said great it is only 80 cents. Little did he know it was 80 cents/ liter and then there was the currency change. It cost $80 the same amount gas cost for the whole trip. At customs we had a difficult time since we weren't planning on going to Canada. We didn't have our birth certificates and we had to prove that Hans was out son. Luckily they took a picture from August of Hans. By summer we would have needed a passport.

The DVD player came in handy on this trip. Hans was entertained playing with his toys and watching his favorite movies.

Day 2-New York City for Hans and I, and Cherry Hill, NJ for Mark
Hans, Mark and I took the light train to the financial district, when Mark wasn't feeling well so he returned to the hotel. Hans and I continued on the path to ground zero, Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Hans was mostly interested in the pigeons and geese. Although he did like all the display cases at Ellis Island. On the ferry we made friends, Hans was goofing around, and he got a bloody nose and they helped me take care of him.

While we were in New York, Mark went to Jersey for the Friday 13th convention. He now has his Jason mask signed by every Jason, and his book signed by most actors. He wanted to get Alice Cooper, but he decided he would rather be back with us.

Hans was so good that I took him to Times Square Toys R Us to get guys. He picked out a transformer. We also got Elle some gifts.

Hans and I went through all of central park. Hans wanted a Popsicle from a stand in the park and I got a Snapple because we were so thirsty.

We took the subway to go to every hot spot in the city and Hans zonked out on one of the rides even though it was completely packed. We made some more friends along the way. We hung out with the author of Christ in the Mayan calendar. He is from Europe and speaking all over the US. It was a group of intellects (United States Professors from Columbia, New York college and Harvard) and they thought I was charming and bright.(OK?) The long conversation started off by asking if I though Pluto belonged in the universe. Hans and I went around with them and they said we could go into the Planetarium where they were speaking, but we passed. We went to art museums and any place I thought Hans would like.

There were a group of guys dancing. We were amazed at how they spun around on one arm.

At Ellis Island

At the Statue of Liberty

Waiting on the Ferry to get to the Island. Hans knocked his nose on the bar behind us and got a bloody nose.

We went to Times Square to see Shrek at the broadway theatre. Mark and I were quite worried Hans would not make it, so we had made up our mind to leave halfway through. Hans loved it. We got him M&M's and he made it through the whole show. We went to a restaurant that was packed thinking it would be good, but Mark and I decided we didn't agree. We should have gone to the Four Seasons Restaurant.

We took the water taxi over to New York. If we drove over we would have missed our Broadway show.

Our next stop was Blairstown and Hope, NJ. We went to all of the Friday the 13th movie sites. We went by camp crystal lake and Mark got water from there. Hanzie's favorite part what hiking

The first night we stayed near Penn State. Let me tell you every experience I have had with the people of Pennsylvania, I have found them to be some of the nicest people. We had missed breakfast time and they made us what we wanted anyways.