Ross and Sarah Beehler, married friends from high school, came up to spend the weekend this past week. They had never been to Detroit in the summer time so they were looking forward to the trip. Lets just say last time they came up it was around 10 degrees out and we tried going to two different events that we couldn't get into. One involved 4 hours in traffic and a monster truck rally that sold cash only tickets that we were cashless for. Man that was a fun time.
I was also able to score a Pontiac G6 convertible for the weekend, so that was a bit of a bonus, although convertibles with the sun beating down, actually get a little old, believe it or not. We started off the weekend by visiting the
Edsel Ford home, which is the home of Henry Fords only child Edsel. The home is amazing with its 60 rooms, many of which actually have wood paneling that was brought over from 16th century English manors. It was built in 1929 for around 3 million dollars which is now the equivalent of 35 million. So at 6.5% interest over 30 years that works out to about $221,223.81 a month. Not too shabby. They also stated that their heating bills were just a measily $125,000 for the entire year.
Saturday we headed on over to the
Henry Ford museum, that Henry Ford established. They had a temporary baseball exhibit going on and we were actually able to see one of the original Honus Wagner baseball cards which is the most sought after baseball card in existense. Some highlights: the limo John F. Kennedy was killed in, the chair Abraham Lincoln was shot in, George Washington's camping gear from the Revolutionary war, the bus that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on (I'm sitting in that seat in the picture), the original Oscar Meyer Wienermobile, and a ton of other items. That evening we headed on down to downtown, and accidently ran into a free scrimmage that the Lions were having, and even brushed paths with the legendary Barry Sanders (pictured).
The Tigers were also playing, and
somehow we were able to score tickets from the box office, to a game a month ago I tried getting tickets to, but was sold out. Not sure how that works out? Anyway, the baseball game ended up being the best game I had ever been too. The game ended with a
two out walk off homer in the bottom of the ninth. Absolutely amazing! Overall everything we ended up doing turned out to be the exact opposite of what had happened on their last trip (bad was now good). It was almost like a Seinfeild episode.
Ross and Sarah Beehler, married friends from high school, came up to spend the weekend this past week. They had never been to Detroit in the summer time so they were looking forward to the trip. Lets just say last time they came up it was around 10 degrees out and we tried going to two different events that we couldn't get into. One involved 4 hours in traffic and a monster truck rally that sold cash only tickets that we were cashless for. Man that was a fun time.
I was also able to score a Pontiac G6 convertible for the weekend, so that was a bit of a bonus, although convertibles with the sun beating down, actually get a little old, believe it or not. We started off the weekend by visiting the Edsel Ford home, which is the home of Henry Fords only child Edsel. The home is amazing with its 60 rooms, many of which actually have wood paneling that was brought over from 16th century English manors. It was built in 1929 for around 3 million dollars which is now the equivalent of 35 million. So at 6.5% interest over 30 years that works out to about $221,223.81 a month. Not too shabby. They also stated that their heating bills were just a measily $125,000 for the entire year.
Saturday we headed on over to the Henry Ford museum, that Henry Ford established. They had a temporary baseball exhibit going on and we were actually able to see one of the original Honus Wagner baseball cards which is the most sought after baseball card in existense. Some highlights: the limo John F. Kennedy was killed in, the chair Abraham Lincoln was shot in, George Washington's camping gear from the Revolutionary war, the bus that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on (I'm sitting in that seat in the picture), the original Oscar Meyer Wienermobile, and a ton of other items. That evening we headed on down to downtown, and accidently ran into a free scrimmage that the Lions were having, and even brushed paths with the legendary Barry Sanders (pictured). 
The Tigers were also playing, and 
somehow we were able to score tickets from the box office, to a game a month ago I tried getting tickets to, but was sold out. Not sure how that works out? Anyway, the baseball game ended up being the best game I had ever been too. The game ended with a two out walk off homer in the bottom of the ninth. Absolutely amazing! Overall everything we ended up doing turned out to be the exact opposite of what had happened on their last trip (bad was now good). It was almost like a Seinfeild episode.
