Photos by Denise Rosen

S.S.Badger
Cassandra

The badger is a big big boat that goes a cross Lake Michigan. On the boat you have to be careful so you don’t hurt anyone else. The Badger used to haul coal trains. Now it doesn’t.

The Caption of the boat has to turn the boat around so you can get off and so you can get your car off. All the people have lots of fun. There is a gift shop, musme, food bar, an arcade, rooms.

S. S. Badger
Brenda

The Badger is like a boat but it is very big. It has a lot of things inside like a movie theater and a gift shop and it also has a store to buy food. The food there is very expensive because the Badger is so big. Some fun things they have there are in the room where you eat you can play bingo and if you when you when prices like stuff that say S. S. Badger and has a boat.

When we went to the Badger we went across Lake Michigan and we went to the museum and we saw a lot of cool stuff. We went inside a submarine and it was very cool.

Some thing that the people that used to use the submarine did is that they had to share beds and they also had to wake up early in the mornings and they also had to fight alot and there bathroom was kind of big.

The things I did when I went to the Badger is that I played lots of games and I also won a pencil that said S. S. Badger. I also played game in a little room where you race with cars. Another thing I did was that I bought stuff and I also ate there. I wish that we came back some day because it is very fun.

On the boat you can fit a lot of people. And I had lots of fun with my friends.

Badger
Gabe H.

The Badger is a carfarry that was made in 1952 also the badger is a coal burning steam ship in 1990 the badger stopped bringing stuff over to Wisconsin. In 1992 the badger started bringing stuff over to Wisconsin. On the badger there is a lunch/supper line,londge and a mini theater a gift shop and a medium arcade. I was in the gift shop or the arcade most of the time.

The SS Badger
Mary

On June 6 we got to go on a Badger trip to Wisconsin. The Badger was built on the year of 1952. They remolded the badger some years ago. They didn’t take any other trips for about 5-7 years and they just started to trip again last year. The Badger was 410 feet long it was as long as a football field. They used it for haling trains and now they use it for haling cars, buses and motorcycles. Now I will start talking about what I was doing during the Badger trip.

Most of the time I was very sick. But I still had a lot of fun. I spent my time with my partners they were Cynthia Vela and Brenda O. There was 2 theaters, 1 gift shop, a game room were there were a lot of video games that you could play. When I saw the gift shop I tried to buy the whole store because every thing was very nice and awesome.

After, we got to Wisconsin we went to a museum that was about submarines in the war. We actually got to go on a real submarine from world war two! In the submarine we saw what a sub would really look like on the inside. The submarine had tiny beds that the crew had to sleep in but they were all bunched together so it looked like that there was barely any room for enough people! The captain gets his own bedroom and bathroom to his self but the rest of the crew has to sleep together in one very small room.

After we saw all of the submarine we went to see the museum in the museum was a lot of information about the submarines. I though it was very awesome what it looked like inside

Badger
Levi

The Badger is a coal powered steam engine that was established in 1952. I didn’t go on the Badger but my friends did and I heard a lot about it. There was an arcade and a place to eat, a gift shop, a theater, and other places too. Angela, Mary, and Nick got seasick.

When they got to the Wisconsin docks, they took a bus to the Maritime Museum. There was a big telescope, and the exhibit was on world war 2. There was also a gift shop in the museum. There was a very small speedboat the size of a small car and there was a lot of models of boats. My friend Hunter got torpedo juice which is a drink that is old-fashioned root beer with other flavors in it.

On the submarine, there was a kitchen, a bathroom, a engine room, and a secretary room. There was a person in the engine room who passed out because the engines were so hot and he was in there so long with the doors shut and the other people on the submarine didn’t find him for four hours because they were out battling. There is still bullet holes in the sub from world war 2.

I really wish I could’ve gone on the Badger. It sounds like a lot of fun.