Looking Through The Lens

As I am sitting drinking my tea, I am overwhelmed at how I hope this summer will out do last summer in so many ways.  The fact that Dunja and Slavko, both from Serbia are coming back for a third year as well as Christina from Jamaica is back for a second year, I am extremely excited.  Now what do I mean by "back", well if I haven't told you my parents own a resort in a "destination" town in Michigan.  Since the town is in a rural part of Michigan it is hard to get employees to work, so my parents have resorted to getting students from other countries. 

This year we have seven Serbians and one Jamaican. I hope that things go well and we all get along.  The past few years we have had great groups of people.  I am trying not to get too excited about it because I do not want to be disappointed.  I am taking every day as it comes. 

For this holiday weekend, my town filled up and filled up fast.  I have come to the realization that without the mountain biking trails that this town would lose about 50% of its business.  I kid you not this town runs on the mountain bikers.  In the restaurant today we weren't as busy as we were last year.  Last year we did 111 breakfast and today we only did 63.  It seemed busy at the time but breakfast is from 7:30-11:30 on most days so in all reality we weren't that busy.  Thinking back on it I believe it just all came at one time.  

I needed to write a little something I have just had a lot on my mind. I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend, while most of you have the day off tomorrow I will be getting up early to open the restaurant at 6:30 so its a goodnight and goodbye for now! :)

A little something before you leave!

This weekend was a crazy busy weekend for me. 

I am starting my last week of classes this week. I cannot wait to be done for the summer. School has just been dragging on and on. As well as dragging me down and down. I have had multiple sleepless nights and stressful days. I ending up having to have three exams during exam week. I will have one on Monday at 8 am and two on Wednesday back to back starting at noon. This means I will not be able to leave Ferris until Thursday morning because of my long drive home I have to make sure I am not driving during the late hours. I am driving home by myself and I do not want to fall asleep. 

This past weekend I went to Minneapolis to go to see The Tenderloins live! It was a long drive to get there (11 hours) but I made it and I had a blast! I had no idea what to expect when I got there and I am going to be honest when I pulled up to the cinema I was thinking to myself, this is it? From the outside and surrounding stores it looked, in my exact words, "very sketchy".  The place was actually very nice. I had never been in a theater that had tables to eat dinner and watch a movie. It was a whole new experience for me.

The show was amazing.

They; Q, Murr, Joe and Sal, came out to the stage to the song 'Sexy and I Know It' by LMFAO.  The moment I saw them I freaked out I screamed 'Oh my God they are real!' For me it was weird, a good weird, seeing them in person after only seeing them on TV and also on their YouTube channel; The Tenderloins. I was star struck for sure. From then on I don't remember ever not laughing or smiling.

Now I will not tell every detail of the show because I do not want to ruin it for anyone who may see them in the future.

At the beginning of the show, they asked the questions most people would think that they would ask; Who is the oldest, the youngest and who drove the farthest. Well I drove 10 plus hours to get there so without a doubt I raised my hands and shouted 10 hours! Someone else said 2 hours, and I had to laugh because that wasn't a far trip at all. Some other lady said she had driven 11 hours from the UP of Michigan and if you follow my blog you already know that I live in the UP during the summer time when I am not at school. Even from the farthest point in the UP it does not take 11 hours to get to Minneapolis. Sorry lady but you lost. Anyways, after that lady told them where she came from, Murr turned back to me and my sister and asked where we came from and in sync Jenny and I both said Grand Rapids, MI and they were all like 'Oh my god are you two twins". Jenny and I just laughed . Continuing Murr asked what we do in Grand Rapids and I said I go to school for Advertising and Jenny told them she works in HR. Having had a little mini conversation with them made me beyond happy. 

The show consisted of a lot of improv, some experiences they've had on the road, and then a little bit of the show. If you all like their podcast or their show in TruTV on Thursday nights at 10 pm I highly highly suggest that you go and see them live. 

Here are just a few pictures I took at the show. I would have taken more, but my phone died.