Week 5 at FSU

 This week marked our first week of the "management" portion of our internship! Now that we have a pretty solid foundation about what goes on in the cook's area, we will be better equipped to help manage all the different aspects of the Rock.
I worked as the "P.M. Manager" for this week, shadowing Mark, one of the assistant managers at the Rock. Although it was kind of a slow week, I was able to perform some manager duties such as walking around from station to station seeing if everything is clean and in order, and handling some unexpected situations. I look forward to acting as A.M. Manager this coming week!

On Tuesday, we had a nice visit from the Michigan State interns, Megan and Jeanette, along with 4 other staff members. Margaret and I gave everyone a tour of the Rock; we were both surprised at how much we've learned about the place! We also showed them the Starbucks retail store, where Laura was so kind as to give everyone free beverages :) We all got a tour of the school's hockey arena, which I had never seen before and thought was really impressive. You can tell they take hockey pretty seriously here. We then all headed back to the Rock for a group lunch! They seemed to really enjoy the food.

Jeanette, me, Margaret, Megan, and Brenda

We were lucky enough to get both Thursday AND Friday off this week, making it a very long weekend :) Margaret's boyfriend, Brian, came all the way from Pittsburgh to visit and they were nice enough to include me in a lot of their plans.

Happy 4th!

Friday we headed to Stearns Park Beach again in Ludington. Margaret and I enjoyed it so much last time that we decided we needed to let Brian experience it. We got really lucky with the weather for this holiday weekend; it was beautiful all week!

The food never disappoints here- veggie wrap and sweet potato fries from a sports bar downtown!

Saturday, it was back to the work grind (sort of). We helped cater a wedding reception near Reed City held outside of someone's house. The house seemed like it was basically in the middle of nowhere, surrounded only by open field and...an animal farm. It was a pretty toasty day, but there was a huge tent that the reception was held under that kept the sun from beating down. It was definitely one of the more unique wedding parties I've ever seen!