July 21st: Unicycle riding and lots more.

I guess camping in Marquette Michigan Tourist Park should've been included in my last post but... I'll include it here.

After waking up from my first night of camping my sister Isabel and I went for a run. The weather was going to get up to 100 degrees so the sooner we left for our run the better.

One thing about me is that I have an indifferent attitude towards running. My sister on the other hand not so much, thats all she does! So keeping up with her was a bit difficult but I think I did a good job! After our run we jumped, well more like eased ourselves into the freezing cold waters of Lake Superior! 

Yup! This was my First time I was in Lake Superior.

After getting back to the campsite my mother suggested that I try the unicycle that one of her friends had and naturally I did!
I would say that trying the unicycle is A LOT harder then it looks and I did a pretty good job for it being my First time on a unicycle. Another thing that I learned was that the seat on a unicycle is all an ALLUSION, because you are basically standing the whole time and even though I didn't make it very far I think I did a very good job for the First time.
After a long day of SCOURGING 102 degree weather we decided to go to Buffalo Wild Wing Marquette and boy was that an episode an a half! The food was really good but EXTREMELY HOT!!! I was literally crying from the combination of heat and laughter.
OH! I completely forgot I also tried WoodChuck Hard Cider for the First time at Buffalo Wind Wings. It was really good and brings my total to 4!
Once again thank you for reading and photos are coming!

July 20th=6!

I don't like to bulk blogging too much so I'm going to try my best and break down the days accurately.
July 20th.

A little geography lesson:

Michigan is made up of two peninsulas, the upper and the lower, and they are made peninsulas by the five great lakes that surround them; Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan and Lake Erie.

On this day we began  our drive to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Even though I lived in Michigan for several years I had never been to the Upper Peninsula so this was the First First of the day. Leysis, Leilani and I were in the same car an I think Leilani learned from our past family road trip from Florida to Michigan to just sleep as much as possible because thats all she did.
I like being with Leysis because we don't talk ALL the time but it seems like our moments of silence are just enough, I don't know about her, but leave me feeling like we've spent hours together. :) Ok enough with the mushy stuff.

The ride, since I didn't drive, was about 7.5 hours and surprisingly didn't feel too treacherous.
In order to get to the Upper Peninsula you need to cross over Mackinac Bridge and as you may have guessed this was my second First of the day. I got some great pictures and even saw men working on the highest point of the bridge which was crazy to see!
The ride over the bridge also provided me with my third First of the day: seeing lake Huron for the First time!
After crossing the bridge we got some great scenic shots of Lake Michigan!
We had to stop at a gas station to get some gas and were very surprised to see that there was no spot to put in a credit card to pay for the gas. I remember Leysis saying "What kind of place is this!?", sarcastically before we walked inside to pre pay for our gas and then when got inside we were thrown back again when the women looked at us like we were crazy and said " You pay AFTER you pump." I have this this inability to keep my mouth closed when it comes to saying inappropriate things and said "Oh! You guys run on an honor system! We'll have to hit you guys up on our way back out! "
After leaving the time machine gas station we kept driving and then arrived to Marquette, Michigan Tourist Park.
This was the First time I had been to Marquette Michigan and the First time being at the Tourist Park.
Our mother arranged for us to arrive to the tourist park a few days early before the music festival began to camp a bit and see the festival grow right before our eyes.
Being the "spoiled city slickers" that we are we rode into town for dinner at The Wild Rover, an Irish pub. The food was very good and their fries were good too. I'm not much of a fry person so for me to say that is kinda a big deal, to me at least. I don't even eat Checker fries that much, I think their really good and I'll order a small value fry but only eat like 5.
The above First bring my grand Total of First for the day to 6!
Thank you for reading! and there are many more to come this was just the First day of camping.

July 15-19th bulk blogging

This will cover July 15th to July 19th.
My family has been going to a cottage in Ludington, Michigan for years now. The cottage is a great get away and also a chance to truly enjoy one another and the tranquil environment.
This was the First time that my daughter and I had been in Ludington together, I was very confident she would love it and she did. While in Ludington these are the First that I did.

First time biking 8 miles! One morning I woke up and felt like going for a bike ride and being that Lake Michigan is such a short distance from the cottage I decided to bike to the lake and take a dip in the lake.
This was also the First time that I biked to Lake Michigan and jumped in.
My next First was kayaking with my daughter.
My sister Leysis and I always seem to make our way into a kayak whenever we are together and we used to kayak when we were younger all the time. I don't know what happened in the last few years that we haven't kayaked but we were short of a mess. The cottage that we go to has a river that flows right behind it  and this is where we kayak. After getting our life jackets on and the kayak in the water we were off. In circles, but off none the less.
My daughter enjoyed being in the kayak and the water however we rowed our butts out of the water after some mystery river thing jumped out at us.
Another one of my First was sand dune climbing with my daughter. Sand dune climbing is also another thing that I enjoy a lot and seeing my daughter run up the huge sand dune.
Family friend of ours invited us out to eat with them and this was the First time that I ate at the Ponderosa Ludington. It was great to hear stories about the couple, they have been married since forever and seem to work so well together. It was great to hear the quirky stories about them and just see a couple that had been married for a long time.
 Another First was eating Mama Chicken. My sister Isabel made it and generally I don't like creamy soup cans recipes but the mama chicken was very good.
Like I said before I'm trying to catch up and photos will follow and my awesome video of me cliff jumping!
Thank you for reading :)

July 15th: Rockford

I arrived in Michigan with my daughter a few hours late due to Delta's ability to always be late. However, I was greeted by one of my lovely sisters, Leysis and we were off to her house for a bit. After arriving at her home and me walking around and looking at everything we left to go to our mom's house in Rockford.

This was my First for the day, going to Rockford.

First off its the WOODS! lol but it wasn't too bad. 

Total First for July 15th: 1!

• going to Rockford, Michigan 

O0oo00h! I forgot that this was also the day that I was ABRUPTLY told that my dog, Mica, was DEAD! I was literally walking up to the door telling my daughter about the beautiful big white dog that would be inside when my sister, Isabel, goes: "Hey, I don't know if Lillie(my other sister, yes I have a lot of sisters) told you but Mica is dead. SURPRISE!" Of course I didn't believe her one, because I always considered Mica a puppy and two, because of the way she told me so I proceeded to call Mica and of course she never came. It was pretty screwed up but Mica was 12/14 years old and a big dog so it was her time :'( 

Thank you for reading! :)

My next few post...

Since I did sooo many things for the First time since the 15 of July my next few post are going to be very scrambled and full of First. In other words its not going to be as structured as usual. But they will be great post with great First.

Thank you for reading. Stay tuned for kayaking, cliff jumping, bike riding, unicycle riding and awesome pictures of the upper peninsula and ALOT MORE.

July 14th: SHANIKA'S 21st BIRTHDAY

On July 14th one of my best friends, Shanika FINALLY turned 21!

So of course we hit the town.

My First First for the day was going to the Red Rooster in Harlem and watching a performance by one of Shanika's friends.

The Red Rooster is a very nice restaurant in Harlem right off of the 125th street subway station. I must say that the restaurant was full of beautiful people and beautiful decor.

After that the group of us headed over to Lea. A very nice French cafe that had crepes, panini and HOOKAH!!! Lea also had a really cute atmosphere it felt like we were sitting in someone's very inviting and nicely decorated living room. We got two hookahs both were great and very clean but I preferred the mint one to the peach blend. 

These were my second and third First of the day, going to Lea and enjoying hookah.

After we were done at Lea we went next door to the Thompson, which also happened to be a ROOF TOP BAR!!! Which is just what the birthday girl wanted for her 21st!

Once upstairs we enjoyed a birthday shot and the wonderful skyline on both sides. The music was WONDERFUL and the DJ was great, they played a good blend of everything. This was my Fourth First of the day.

After all the dancing we were on our way home and while we were in the subway station this girl was trying to save a huge wounded subway RAT. In short it was quite the episode and only something you can see in NYC.

Total First of the day:4!

Thank you for reading!

Pictures will come later I'm trying to blog it all down and then come back and upload all the pictures.

July 13: Numerology

I'm catching up on my blogging so please bear with me.
My First for July 13th was calculating all of my numerology.
If I calculated accurately then my destiny number is: 1 which is the leader of the pack and the correlating planet is the Sun.
My zodiac number is 9 because I'm an Aries.
My birth path number is 4
and my house number works very well with where I currently am in life.
Some of the calculations were a bit confusing but I got through it and was pleasantly pleased.
Total First: 1! Numerology
Thanks for reading