http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050622/ap_on_fe_st/popsicle_disaster
All the makings of a “B” horror flick. 
I would kill to be there. Snapple is so awesome, and being able to swin and sucle the goo would be even better!
There’s gotta be a Rosie O’Donnel joke in here somewhere.
Umm, not after it’s touched the sidewalks in downtown Manhattan… ewww! But then… you did say you’d lick a Koxx… I’m really starting to wonder about you.
Yoopers,
I have to ask. Are you folks from round the UP? Most of my family is up there.
Blake
Blake,
My wife, Mary, and I both call the U.P. home but we currently live in northern Illinois. Mary’s father was my pastor when I was two years old in Newberry (my father was born and raised in Newberry) but we moved away just after my kindergarten year. Over the years, we attended Family Camp in Michigamme. Mary father retired out of the ministry and settled in Iron Mountain. He married Mary and I in the log chapel at Camp Michigamme in 1983.
Today, we vacation as often as we can back in the U.P. Ben and Brad have even grown up as the new generation attending Family Camp at Camp Michigamme. I’ve longed for years to return permanently to the U.P. but so far nothing has turned up job wise. Besides, we’ve built a life here in Rochelle over the past 15 years and would hate to pull the boys out of their roots and activities. Who knows what the future holds, though.
Okay, you’ve got to fill me in on your family in Superiorland.
Bruce
Blake,
One other story (too late to edit). When we attended UNICON in Seattle in 2002, we stayed with friends in Buckley, WA who went to school with Mary in Norway, MI in the late 70’s.
Bruce
:Cartman voice: now that’s what i call a sticky situation
the UP!
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for the reply. The MIchigamme area is beautiful. One of my favorite places to drive through up there! My family was originally from around Down state. I went to a Summer camp at Michigan Tech when I was about 12 and fell in love with the place. It was a geology camp, so we went from mining overburden pile to mining overburden pile I brought back about 150 pounds of rocks. I knew I had to live there someday.
Eventually I moved up there to BootJack (tiny remnant of a town S of Lake Linden on the way to Jacobsville), had my son Bear in Calumet(The new hospital in Laurium), and decided to attend MTU. By then my family was convinced that the UP was the most beautiful place in the galaxy and moved to Fairport, the southernmost tip of the Garden Peninsula. They have a happy retirement all set up for themselves. My Pop is currently recovering from Chemo, and he’s been thoroughly enjoying the scenery and the people up there. I sure am happy for them. He sings in a barbershop quartet and tunes pianos when he’s not talking to the fishermen about the day’s haul.
I went on from MTU to get my PhD here at Washington State. Newly graduated, I’m looking for work as faculty, so I pretty much have to go where my job takes me. The Soil Scientist at MTU is almost 70. He’s a hearty Finnish man who says his career is just starting, so he’s not likely to retire soon! I’ll be applying for his job when it opens up in abotu 15 years! I’d love to be back there again.
A pleasure to meet you!
Blake
I live just a few blocks away from union square–I had no idea this happened. Neither did anyone I know…
I do wish I was there–nothing like licking dessert right off the sidewalk after pulling my unicycle out of it…
Well snapple the attention they wanted…