Soo-per!

Sault Saint Marie (also called "The Soo", yes, spelled like that) is easily my favorite city so far. I knew a lot about it before we got here because it was featured in the Eastern North America class I took as a geography major at Mary Washington. It was just really cool to see everything the professor talked about (even though I took the class two years ago).

There's one on the Ontario side as well as the Michigan side, and we visited both. The Ontario side is a papermill city, but both sides have extensive canal systems, which we were fascinated by. We checked out a sweet little museum on the Canadian side and ate dinner (in a boat-shaped restaurant!) and watched ships go through the locks on the American side. We actually drove to Rudyard, Michigan to pick up American cell phone signals to catch up with our families at domestic rates. We ended up pulling over at a playground to make the calls, which must have been strange looking to anyone passing by. It was just a really interesting and chill day!

Tree of the day: paper birch. Those things were everywhere on the gorgeous drive up here.

PS- Just wanted to share the hilarity of the evening. We all headed down to the pool/gym area. Amanda and I decided to exercise a little bit to offset the sitting in a car for such long stretches. She took the stationary bike, I took the treadmill. Somehow, we blew a fuse and I about faceplanted on the thing. It was probably really funny to watch. It's also probably really funny to imagine.