This past Saturday I had a first for me. I was mentioned in the same newspaper article with Kid Rock. During my home hunting experience I made use of a website called zillow.com . Its a website where it predicts the current value of a home based on several different factors. All you need is an address and you're good to go. While its much more accurate for metro regions its pretty neatto experiment with. Anyway, the Detroit News came to my realtor looking for people who had used the website and she mentioned me. So I got to do an interview and get some pictures taken and low and behold I got a couple of paragraphs and a photo in one of the major papers in Detroit. You can check out the article here . Its been pretty neat having people come up to me at work and say they saw me in the paper.

That crappy room you saw above in the background has now turned green. One room down, only 4 or 5 more to go. Many thanks to my friends Ben and Laura for helping to paint and also in making me be a bit more daring in my color choices. I have some couches that show up for this room in a week and a half and am getting pretty excited. I've decided I'm going with a formal living room (no TV), and think this will be a great place to relax. I'm also painting my basement bathroom red at the moment, which is a bit of a stretch for me, but so far so good. Let me know if you've got any suggestions for my kitchen. I'm going to be painting the cabinets white, and right now a sugestion for the walls has been a darker shade of blue. We'll have to see about that one.

I've also had the pleasure of having some new visitors stop bye a couple weekends in the past month. My friends Jenn and Nelson made their first trip up to Detroit and also my parents came up with my sister Camille and her husband Jeremy. As always experienced some excellent restaurants with them again. My parents have now been coming up once or twice a year for 6 years now, and I don't think we've hit the same restaurant once. We also did some neat exploring of the city. Its amazing all the intesting new things you see everytime you head into large cities. I've been down there dozens of times and it still fascinates me everytime I go. For all the negative stereotypes Detroit has, it has so much to offer. I do describe it as a city you have to learn to love. It doesn't present itself well to outsiders, but is such a neat place if you give it a chance. Here a couple of images from throughout the day.









The Guardian Building










The Spirit of Detroit, and Joe Louis Fist











No trip to the city is complete until you ride the Peopple Mover, our lovely elevated train that takes you in a 3 mile loop and deposits you right back where you started.

Special credit should be given to my sister Camille for the above photos.