Chlorine

The best cure for homesickness? A visit from a best friend!

Geneva and I spent ALL day yesterday walking around Ann Arbor and enjoying the sites and sounds. We went to the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology which kept me entertained with a mummy while little miss Anthropology major drooled over the collection.

No trip would be complete without a trip to Zingermans...a business owned by a U of M grad. It's absolutely delicious! Zingerman's is most famous for their reuben sandwiches and has a plethora of flavors of bacon (I should also mention that I am completely enthralled by their chocolate chunk sourdough bread).

A "small" PPP which ended up being lunch and dinner.

Someone was clearly happy about her sandwich :)

We also spent some time around campus and went to one of my favorite destinations: the cube. It is a giant piece that rotates when a forceful push gets it into motion. While we were there a kid got it moving and sped it up by pushing it while riding his bike: most impressive!

Trivia Answer: Salt, bleach, and stomach acid all contain chlorine! Salt is sodium chloride, bleach is sodium hypochlorite, and stomach acid is hydrochloric acid.

Fun Fact: During World War I, chlorine was used as a poison gas in trench warfare. Unfortunately it had negative consequences for both sides. Despite releasing the gas when the wind blew toward the enemy line, both the enemy and the side using chlorine gas were killed in equal amounts due to the laws of diffusion.