This weekend started out with a horrible bang, but luckily finished up good. Friday, Cory and I went to Sault Ste. Marie because I had to take an exam for work. We had been planing the trip for a couple of weeks so it wasn't anything real spur of the moment. My exam was scheduled for 12:30pm and it's about a 4 1/2 hour trip so we decided to leave at 6:00am to make sure we got there in time in case we ran into bad weather. The weather channel had extended the winter storm warning for our area for another 2 days and was predicting 11-17 inches to fall in the Houghton area. We actually got on the road early and were on our way, kind of, before we left the driveway we noticed the heat in Cory's car being finicky again but decided that it wasn't that big of a deal and then we were on our way.
Bad. Idea. By the time we got to Baraga (half hour down the road) the heat would only work if I kept my foot jammed up between the under part of the dashboard area and where the floor slopes up. Believe me, sitting like that for another hour was not fun. By the time we got to Marquette the heat had stopped working completely. We stopped at 2 different auto part stores to see if the had the tools Cory needed to do a quick fix. They didn't so Cory just did a temp. fix. that lasted about another hour. We stopped at another store in Munising to get some more wires and parts to try to fix it again and it ended up braking even more. Have you ever ridden in a car for 2 hours with the heat not working at all and it being 2 degrees outside? Ya, not pleasant. Luckily, Cory had an electric blanket that plugs into the cigarette outlet of a car in his trunk. His dad bought it for him 7 years ago when he first came up to school and used it for the first time this weekend.
Finally, at 12:45 we got the the Soo and I took my exam. I happened to bring the number of the testing center with me so I was able to call ahead and tell them that we ran into some car trouble and they understood. Thank God I passed my exam. 4 hours of sleep and the most miserable 61/2 hour ride of my life weren't really playing in my favor. Cory was also able to get the heat kind of working so we wouldn't completely freeze and we had 2 blankets on the way home so we were able to stay warm.
Besides that, the weekend was good. Saturday Cory and I went to see Jeff Daniels in show up in Calumet. I had never been to the old Opera house up there until this weekend, it is beautiful in there! ground floor plus 2 balconies built in the late 1800's = wow. We sat in the front row and I ended up getting called on stage to do the "Big Bay Shuffle". Jeff Daniels wife is from Marquette, and he has filmed in the U.P. before so he is really familiar with the area. Big Bay is the name of one of the towns up here and the "Big Bay shuffle" is a dance that he saw in a bar one night when he was in Big Bay. It's essentially the dance that all 6th graders do awkwardly by not moving their feet and just bobbing. The twist is that you are holding a beer in each hand. He didn't give us beer though, I had to just pretend like I was holding them.
On Sunday, Cory and I went snow shoeing and ended up finding a waterfall that we never knew existed in Hancock. I want to go back in the spring to see it running with all the spring run offs, I think it will be really cool. I have pictures of our adventure, I'll post them later.
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I'm so happy you passed! I was wondering how it went.
me too! I was kind of surprised that I did. I was so tired I couldn't even read my score sheet when it showed up on the computer. All I saw was "PASS" so I figured that was good enough.
That sounds good enough to me! I guess the score didn't really matter? I'm jealous of all that you get to do. It sounds like you're having lots of fun, besides the heater issues.
Ya, you need a 70% to pass but the actual score doesn't matter, as long as you pass is what matters.
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