Our Badger Trip

June 7, 2001

The S.S. Badger is a car ferry. It was built in 1952. The car ferry ran many years. It was known for its good work in the 1950-1960. It took trains across lake Michigan. Then they quit doing that. A man decided to use the Badger again. It cost millons of dollars to fix it up. I am glad they did. …Max

The badger trip was a lot of fun! My friends and I did every thing together. Like we played in the arcade, went to the gift shop and got matching monkeys except for Jackie. Hers was different then ours. We also looked over the side of the boat. the water looked really pretty and we watched "Never been Kissed". The boat was really big and really cool. …Artisha

Aboard the SS Badger there are many exciting games and activities. Two of my favorites are Badger Bingo and the arcade.
In the arcade there are a bunch of games, like a golf game, a racing game and pinball. …Clyve

The coolest thing on the Badger was sailing away. We watched the land get smaller and smaller. The second best thing that was cool was in the arcade. The third most fun thing was Karoake The forth-best thing was the movies.. I also loved the museum on the badger and the museum in Wisconsin. I think it was nice for the teachers to take us on the SS Badger I had a lot of fun. …Sabrina

Badger Bingo
by Mary O'Hara

On the S.S. Badger they had lots of different activities and games for the people on the boat to play. One of the activities was Badger Bingo. When they started playing bingo you would play regular bingo. You know the kind with five pieces in a row. Then they started coming up with some unusual kinds.

One kind of unusual bingo was Rachael bingo. In Rachael Bingo you had to get your bingo pieces in the shape of an R. Another type of bingo very alike Rachael bingo was Tom bingo. In Tom bingo you had to get your pieces in the shape of a T.

They also had Blackout Bingo. In Blackout bingo you had to have your whole card filled up with bingo pieces. In blackout bingo many people won at the same time.

There was also a game called Name that tune. In name that tune there was songs from the fifties, sixties etc;. You had to get the name of the song and you would win a sparkly Badger pencil.

They also had some great prizes. The prizes were a cup holder, a tote bag, coffee mugs, pencils, keychains, and hats. I won a tote bag playing Rachael Bingo. I had a great time and I hope I can go again sometime.

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When I went on the Badger I did many things. They had a museum on the boat that had old things that were from before. They also had an arcade, movies, bingo, and karoke. Those are the things I did. They also had two food courts. They both had really good food. I mostly had snacks. ...Sarah

Aboard the Badger with Stuart

On the Badger there was a lot to do. you could walk the deck, shop, watch t.v or sleep. The Badger was vary big. the deck had two stories. The Badger let out a lot of smoke and ash which was really smelly. On the badger I had a lot of fun in the inside of the boat. I ate in there and shopped in the gift shop it was a lot on fun.
When we finally got to Wisconsin we went to a museum and looked a submarine and then we went back to the Badger and sailed away. While we were on the way home I watched a movie and played hide and go seek with my friends. It was a lot of fun on the boat. My friends and I went up to sleep in front of the boat and it wasn’t a good Idea. It was to cold so, we went down below. On the ride I bought a boxing nun. it was vary cool but it broke on the way home. So that is about all I did on the badger. …Stuart

The Day on the Badger
Carmen Howard

On June 7th the whole fifth grade class went on the Badger. When I got there the boat was huge I didn’t think it would be as big. Then I got all excited. When we got led on my mom, Mara, and I put our stuff on a table. We left to go exploring on the boat. But then we went to the front of the boat to watch the move. It started to move at eight thirty in the morning. When it started moving it was cool! Also when it’s moving you can’t feel it. After Mara and I walked around for a little while until bingo started. For all the time that I played bingo I never won anything except for a pencil, but Mara won a hat. After bingo we went to go eat with my mom. By then we were near Wisconsin. In Wisconsin we were going to visit a museum.

We were on the boat again this will be the end of the trip. So do what you want to do for the last time. The boat was awesome I wish I go again.

Josh, Brett and Justin on the deck of the submarine, Cobia. The Cobia served in WWII.

The Badger's arcade was a favorite spot for Ryan, Ryan and Max.

The badger was the most exciting trip I have ever been on. One of my favorite things was the movie lounge. It was a pretty big room with a lot of comfy chairs. On the way to Manituac there were 2 movies playing. they were Never Been Kissed & The Prince of Egypt. At 10:25 Max asked me to go to the movies with him so I did. Andy also asked Amber to go so she did. We all watched Never Been Kissed. But we only watched half of it, then we went out on the deck. I thought the movie was good. On the way back the movies playing were Apollo 13 & Toy Story.

The other thing I liked was the boutique it had a lot of stuff in it. I got 2 rings, 3 stuffed animal monkeys, angel snot {it is a kind of goo} rocks & minerals, & a little glass for my dad. I had a lot of fun on the badger and I hope to go again someday. …Jackie

The S.S. Badger
Sella

On the Badger it was very fun and very beautiful outside on the deck. Jay, Shannon, and me were on the deck a lot taking pictures laying on the lawn chairs and stuff.

When we weren’t outside on the deck we were playing badger games. These games were bingo, I won 2 games and got a hat and back bag. Badger bluffers, which is a game that 4 people would say something 3 are lying and 1 was telling the truth. And you have to guess what one was telling the truth. The other game we played was who want to be a badger billionaire and it was a lot like who wants to be a millionaire. They picked a number and who ever had that number on the back of their bingo card got to play fastest hand, which is kind of like fastest finger on who wants to be an millionaire Jim got to play it on the way to Wisconsin. Every time they asked him a question he got a better prize.

The S.S. Badger was very exciting. The crew was nice to everyone on board. I hope to go back sometime with my family.

On the deck of the submarine Cobia
When we got to Wisconsin we went to a museum in Manitowoc. We got to go inside a submarine. It was really cool. Once we got off the submarine we went to the gift shop. Then we went to the museum. The museum was really cool because you could talk on old-fashioned telephones to other people. …Sarah

On the Badger we watched movies in the movie lounge. On the way to Manawtawoc, Wisconsin they played The Prince of Egypt and Never Been Kissed. I watched Never Been Kissed. On the way back to Michigan they played Toy Story and Apollo 13. I watched some of both.

They also played games like who wants to be a Badger billionaire, find the bluffer, and bingo.

I also went and played video games in the arcade I played games like a race car game called Rush,…Kieran

Shannon takes time out to learn something at the Maritime Museum.

The "doors" in the submarine were very unusual.

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