First Lady Laura Bush holds the hand of first grade student Anna German with classmate Colin McMerty as she waves to the rest of the class at the Bismarck Municipal Airport Thursday Oct. 2, 2008 in Bismarck, N.D. North Dakota First Lady Mikey Hoevenis at center.
First Lady Laura Bush listens to the Sims Scandinavian Lutheran Prairie Church parishioners in rural Morton County, N.D., on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 during a potluck meal in the church basement.