today we were tourists in our own town! Since we only had a few hours to tour, we decided to spend our time in East Lansing. We started at the Bug House where we met Rosie the Tarantula
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Met a very cool walking stick
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And some hissing cockroachs from Madagascar!
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Second, we went to the MSU dairy store and all got some wonderful ice cream
Alexis enjoyed mint chocolate chip
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and in typical Daniel style, he got Death by Chocolate
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On the way back to the Cata bus, we came across this interesting lab