Wonderful visitors, rain, cider mill, detroit, and much more!

FRIDAY

We were so happy to have Dave's parents come visit for the weekend. We had so many things planned, and did as much as we could with the weather. It was a GREAT weekend! Thanks again for coming Papa and JoJo!!! We went on a rainy car tour around campus, walked through Kerrytown to lunch...

Lunch at Zingermans Deli, one of the famous places in A2 that we hadn't been to yet. It was delicious!



Anna loved having her Papa and JoJo here!


After lunch we went to Dexter's cider mill the oldest constantly running Cider Mill in Michigan. We had wrong directions to see the cider being made and we walked right into the room where the cider press was. Ha!
Anna kept wanting to go back into that room!A scene from behind the cider mill.





Despite the rain it was beautiful! We really wanted the Miners to see how awesome the fall leaves are, instead they saw how green it is here.



Anna is obsessed with rocks right now and even more obsessed with throwing them into water...


... or other things. (She kept making the funnies faces anticipating the loud clank it would make at the bottom of the can.)

After the cider mill we went to a pumpkin patch/ farm. We got to see this one week old calf and two one -month old pigs. Later on that night we had dinner at the Gandy Dancer a cool old train station turned into a fabulous restaurant. Probably the best Filet Mignon I have EVER tasted. Thanks to the Abernethys and the new Kid's Swap for letting us enjoy dinner as adults!

SATURDAY

We set out to see Detroit, daring I know. It was so sad to see all the destruction and loss of city life in once one of the most influential towns!

We first stopped by the Detroit Temple. It is beautiful and very small, compared to what we are used to in other cities, especially SLC.

Next stop...MOTOWN!! YEAH! Michael Jackson...need I say more?

The river walk... I cannot believe how close we live to Canada, that is Ontario across the water!(It was freezing if you cannot tell).




The next set of mostly blurry photos show the destruction. If you look closely at the buildings you won't see windows, but emptiness or boards. Some of these buildings are awesome, it is so sad to see that this is what has happened. I didn't take any photos of the good stuff like Comerica park, the DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts), many beautiful churches, etc. So this paints a real sad picture, but shows the truth.





Anna loved having JoJo sit next to her in the car.

Back to beautiful Ann Arbor. We took a nice long walk around Gallup Park and the Huron River. It was beautiful!

Cute couple!

SUNDAY

Sunday we relaxed and watched (or tried to) our church's General Conference (when our leaders speak to the church, it is amazing. Click here to find out more: http://www.lds.org/). Then, that night we had Dave's cousins, Richard and Sarah, over for dinner and birthday cake. I wanted to bake Dave a cake (honestly I want to be on one of the food network shows, but that takes training... which I wouldn't mind having), but I also wanted to make a yummy raspberry pie for my in- laws so... I did both (with lots of help from JoAnn). We were stuffed! But it was worth every calorie! Dave opened presents wrapped in Baby gift bags, no I am not pregnant, but that is all we had to wrap with! He got a bunch of clothes, nothing too exciting this year, unfortunately.

DAVE'S actual Birthday...


We bid farewell to Papa and JoJo, worked, Dave attended 8+ hours of school, we dropped Anna off at the Tophams (thanks again you guys) and went out for a fun dinner just "us." We had delicious Italian food at Palios and Dave's meal was FREE! as well as a FREE dessert...Dave chose to try a canolli for the first time, delicious!



Here are the two buddies before Anna went to bed.

I am in love with Anna's "cheese" these days, she does it sometimes just to make me smile. I also am in love with this 28 year old! (: