It’s kind of amazing, but, in all this time we’ve been in Michigan, Suzanne and I have never really been down to Detroit. We had planned just an evening down there, but, both of us, unbeknownst to each other, made arrangements to spend the entire night down there and come back Sunday morning (I’d have to admit that Suzanne’s planning was more complete than mine…as usual).
A random picture of downtown Detroit. A very strange city…there are some really nice sections but there are a ton of buildings that are just abandoned, and there isn’t really a rhyme or reason to that
The Ren Center, home of GM. We were in the lobby and it’s GM cars everywhere; Pretty nice.
Hart Plaza….the abnormally warm March made this walk mostly nice, but, you can see we’re in the shade and it grew quite chilly as we walked from the people-mover stop at the Ren Center to the the stop near Joe Louis Arena….
The monument to the Underground Railroad; there’s a mirror/similar statue on the other side of the Detroit River over in Windsor…
Walking along the Detroit River….the Ambassador Bridge off in the distance.
We had dinner down in Greektown; went to the casino (won’t be doing that again; didn’t like the layout and well, didn’t do very well at all). Stopped at the Astoria Bakery for some awesome late night treats.
First night away from home, boys were still there when we returned (although they could have cleaned up after themselves….that got all of them in trouble when we arrived home).
