Michigan

Awesome Place

The place where I'm staying is beautiful. It's a house by a private lake (which has canals into larger lakes not too far away) that is isolated in an amazing little forest. There's a lot of natural vegetation around the area and it's really good fishing there. I'm really having a huge blast. A really chill-and-relax atmosphere is in the air right now (listening to Alec's iTunes playlist doesn't hurt). We're gearing up to watch The Hunger Games.

I took a lot of pictures with Michael's Cannon camera today and I promise to upload them.

I love this place.

A Little Message To Tyler

I think it's a good idea to start after my trip. I kind of just want to chill and relax. It would be a better idea to do so, as I may not always be on the computer. But if you want to start it sooner and when I'm in Michigan, it's okay with me. Might even be better.

Fishing Was Epic

The lake we reside by doesn't really have that much fish because the water became really murky when there was some heavy rain (sorry, just had to stop to laugh at Michael's expression when he saw Raymond trying to sing along to Wanna Be A Baller), so fish are less likely to see the bait.

Anyways, after some attempts at trying to fish this morning, we decided to try our luck at the bigger lake one canal up. So we went up and it was amazing. Wen Jia caught two bluegills in the big lake (and would later catch loads more in the little lake when we went back) and Michael (Wanna Be A Baller ended, but What's Love is on and Raymond's still rapping) caught (Raymond just said, "Vanilla manalla" XD) one huge bluegill in the smaller lake. We caught four bluegills we could keep in total. Raymond had a HUGE catch. He had just finished casting out into the lilies and got it stuck. He called Alec over to help him untangle his line. However, Raymond said that he had a fish on hook but had lost it (although he still claimed that it was still on). Alec went over and originally said that he just hooked onto lilies when he started pulling on the line with his hands. When the pike's head emerged from the lilies, we were all kind of paralyzed. Alec managed to net the pike and we had that, the bluegills (OH GOD, Young, Wild & Free just turned on), pork chops, wings, pizza, and garlic bread (just finished going outside to pick peaches; the only peach was being destroyed by ants, and on the way back inside Raymond said, "Yay, time for the weed song!"). We also had side dishes of strawberries, oranges, peppers, and cucumbers.

Anyways, it was a really fun day today. I learned how to gut a fish. A pretty valuable skill. Anyways, learned a few things today. I learned that fishing is pretty hard (you try it) and that cleaning a fish is not easy.

What's Happened

So Friday I arrived in Michigan around 12:00 (Magic just went on) and got back to Alec's place by around 1:00 (we stopped by McDonalds to pick up something to eat). Anyways, when we got back, we set up the beds, brushed our teeth, showered and slept. The morning we woke up, we had to go for dim sum with my aunt's childhood friend she hadn't seen for well more than 30 years. It was really cool seeing my aunt reunite with a long lost friend.

So day one consisted of going to dim sum and learning how to fish. The second day consisted of fishing for most of the day. Yesterday consisted of visiting distant relatives in Windsor and having lunch at my aunt's cousin's house.  We went for a sort of dinner at a Schezwan style restaurant. Then we went home and started watching Gattaca (although I fell asleep pretty soon). Today was mainly just fishing. Wen Jia stayed out on the water for like the whole day and caught a lot of fish (although most had to be thrown back). We had a barbecue and that's where I am. Ready to watch The Hunger Games.

Well, Goodbye

I'm glad I finally got out to the outside world. I hope I'll post soon again for more updates on my adventures in Michigan.

I'm a 10. Finally feel good enough to be a 10. I'm having a really fun time here. Tomorrow we're heading over to Ann Arbor to just travel around places.

"I love you." - Anybody