The one where I went to Aloha

This is what happens when you ask some random Joe to take your picture... Be that as it may, that's me on the left and my motorcycle instructors Jessica and Tim.  They were excellent!  I've been riding in Korea for several years, but I still learned a lot about motorcycles, motorcycle safety and the law.  We did a weekend course at the elementary school I attended as a child.  Eleven of us started the course, then one guy fell off his bike and damaged his knee, so we were down to ten.  All ten of us graduated, and I got a 100% on the course written exam even though I messed up two times on the riding test... a little.  The tight U-turns inside a small box were no problem during practice, but as soon as they started testing it, I got nervous.
Yesterday, Bette and Jack and I went up to Aloha, Michigan, where my brother is remodeling a house into a B&B... but not really a B&B.  It's more like a French "pension" if you know what that is, a kind of half-ass inn.  Anyway, despite three years of work, my brother hasn't completed even enough of the building to allow for habitation of any kind.  No water. No sewer.  That's the difference between us.  I would have completed at least one small section to live in (including water and sewer hookup) then proceeded to work on the rest.  Eh, c'est sa vie et pas la mienne!  All the same, it was a beautiful day for a lovely drive through the northern woods to Mullet Lake where his new house is.  Here's a picture of the house/pension.  It's right at the front gate of Aloha State Park.

Chuck and Deanna and their kids Matt and Lacy stopped in on their way up to Copper Harbour.  They have a cabin up there in the wilderness of the Upper Peninsula.
My niece's daughter Amber arrived safely on Sunday and is now staying with us.  She seems to be getting used to the place quite nicely.