Our First Visitors 10/9 - 10/14

When we found out that we would be moving to Michigan, Kathy aka Mom Birks decided that they were going to buy tickets right then to come out and visit us.  It was exciting knowing that we would have visitors, before we had even moved.

Now onto the fun stuff :)

Thursday started off with Chase and I meeting with our new realtor to see a house.  I would've preferred to have gone another time but we didn't have a lot of options in our busy schedules, so the family was nice enough to tag along.  We then headed downtown to go to the GM Renaissance Center.  We made it just in time for a tour of the building which was really cool.  We learned a lot about the building and of the city.

We took an elevator up the tallest tower so some of the views below are from up there :)

 We of course were starving by the time it was over, so we bought some grub and took it outside to sit by the river walk and enjoy the lovely weather (they picked the perfect week to come.)

 Afterwards we walked up & down the river walk enjoying our relaxing time taking pictures and gawking over the fact that we could see people in Canada :)

 About the time we decided we were done we knew the freeway would be crazy with traffic so we hung out a little bit longer.  Detroit has something they call the people mover which is an above ground subway, it only cost $.25 so we said what they heck why not.  I'm actually really glad we took a ride around the city because it was a fun way to see a whole bunch of the buildings and the city.

 We then headed home, but rather than taking the freeway we took the "scenic" route.  I wanted to go this way because I wanted to see the drastic change from rundown Detroit to Gross Pointe, which is a city that has million dollar houses and it literally boarders Detroit.  Oh my gosh the houses were gorgeous!  We were definitely drooling over the houses that had water front property or that had the view of the lake out from their house.  I could live there ;) If only we were that rich.

Who wouldn't want that view :)

Oh and how could I forget!  This day started Carissa's daily pics to her friend back home :)  I think the only pictures I took during the entire week was of her :)

Once we got home us girls had to shopping for food so that we could eat while they were here.  I didn't want to plan meals ahead of time because I wanted their opinions on what we were eating.  As we were shopping it was brought to my attention that I had them going home at the wrong time.  Good thing we got that all sorted out before monday because I would've dropped them off at 5am rather than 5pm oops.

Friday we started the day eating pretty late because we had all stayed up really late (well according to our time) and then they weren't used to Michigan time yet.  Haha when I think about it, I don't think we every got going very early in the morning except for church.  Alright onto our day.  We decided to head down to the Henry Ford Museum, since Gary wanted to meet up during their trip for dinner.  It was funny to see them all react over the museum because I totally remember feeling the same way when I first walked in.  Just to set the stage for you, the building is old and gorgeous and then the halls have magnificent chandeliers and then you walk into to museum section and the first thing you see is a real plane hanging from the ceiling.  Needless to say it's a pretty impressive place.  We spent hours looking at almost everything.  Some things took longer than others wanted but we didn't want to completely leave each other ;)  We were finally coming to the last area when we were told we had to leave :(  What a bummer!  Carissa really wanted to see the dymaxion house which is a circular house but it was closed and they told us to leave.  Haha we even got some ladies panties in a bunch because even though we knew it was closed and couldn't walk through it we wanted to see the outside.  She got all huffy and puffy and kept telling us it was closed.  The boys told her we knew and kept on looking anyway.

The plane you see when entering the building

To be honest she wasn't that bad. 

 Well after a fun and tiring 5-ish hours and we were told the place was closed, we headed over to Pat and Gary's to meet up for dinner.  We headed to some restaurant and I told Ric, Kathy and Carissa that they could order anything but that they had to eat a coney dog while they were in Michigan.  I promise I'll only make you eat it once ;)  Speaking of Coney Dog's I'd really like to know why people love them so much.  I mean honestly all it is, is a dang chili dog with onions and mustard on it.  This state is really missing out on some good food like, ahem, Cafe Rio.  Ok back to our night.  We sat and chatted over our coney dogs for awhile and then headed for home.  It was a lovely day and we were all ready to put our feet up and enjoy a movie.