Ann Arbor, Champaign and Marian University.

We finished up school last Friday and are now on fall break.  In Genetics we had a unit test and assigned a reading assignment for the fall break.  Selected Topics worked on their solar system modeling lab.  We checked problems on arrays in computer programming with five students remaining to be checked when we return on Monday.

On Friday afternoon, Sue Neal and I headed to Ann Arbor to see our youngest daughter at the University of Michigan where she is in graduate school.  We spent Friday night at my father's house in Ohio and drove up the next day.  We toured the campus, went to Nichols Arboretum near campus, the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens (pictures below).  On Sunday, we drove out and took a hike at the Pinckney State Recreation Area.

We stopped by Albion College and Warren Dunes State Park on our way down to Champaign on Monday.  While in Champaign, I went out to the prairie restoration park, harvested some wildflower seeds.  We went to Curtis Orchard and Prairie Garden Center.

Today, we stopped by Marian University (Indianapolis, IN) to eat lunch with our nephew Jess and Colleen.

There was an orchid exhibition at the Matthaei Botanical Garden, below are two of many.  http://www.lsa.umich.edu/mbg/

There was an exhibit of carnivorous plants ... below are pitcher plant and below that, venus flytraps.

There was also a very good desert biome plant exhibit ... picts below ...

More picts from the trip tomorrow ... glad to be back in Holland!

Congrats to our golf team ... finished 12th at the state golf tournament which is non-classed.  Proud of you!