... In April we visited the Henry Ford Museum and the Rouge Factory with Dave's Dad, Paul. It was awesome! I still haven't blogged, but wanted to take a moment to go back in time (quite literally) and post some of the collection.
THE ROUGE FACTORY did not allow cameras, but it was cool to walk through. This is Ford's plant where they make all the Ford Autos. We were able to walk through and see how a car is made from start to finish. Sounds boring, not so much. Ford and his company are very innovative, even down to putting a garden on the roof which extends the roof's useful life and also insulates the building. Everything is VERY planned out. 
When they make the body of the car it is all painted together at the beginning, then each piece systematically is sent off in its own direction on different conveyer belts, eventually after all the nuts and bolts are in (you watch the workers put them in on the large conveyer belts) all the original pieces of the SAME car are put back together. It is pretty amazing.
THE HENRY FORD MUSEUM:
Ford is a collector (I will post another time of the BUILDINGS - yes buildings he has collected). He loved to buy things of historical value and replace them to their proper or original state. I don't know how all this collection came about but here are some highlights.
"THE ONE THAT STARTED IT ALL" Henry Ford's first horseless carriage (the "Quadricycle") that helped design the later Model T.
The Car that Kennedy was shot in. We also saw the car Reagan was shot in.
There were many old "planes, trains, and automobiles" through out the museum, this one caught our eye as we were going to be moving soon!
Not so old, but quite the collector
The Bicycle that Tom Thumb Rode. 
Dave's Grandpa worked as an attorney for Union Pacific Railroad, so this photo of Paul is in honor of his father 
This Train was HUGE!!!! Anna was enthralled as I think we all were. The cool thing is we were able to go up inside of it. 
Anna decided to be conductor... while also taking a moment to stink up the place. Ha!
The Bus where Rosa Parks made her stand against racism.
And what is supposedly the seat that she sat in (though it looks different in the actual photo of her so we were a little confused.)
There was a big selection dedicated to slavery and the history of segregation. Though I have heard many stories, read books on it, studied history, it was still amazing to me to actually SEE firsthand some of the things that were used. I cannot imagine what the society was like to live in at that time. The section on slavery and some of the torture devices, the historical newspaper clippings, and the "For Sale" (of colored people) signs were just baffling. Such a sad time in history, among many others.
The chair that Lincoln was shot in. We thought we would have seen this a year ago when we went to the actual Theater! Had to go to two different states to see the whole package.
"Hot Dog Bed" Anna loved playing in this thing. It was so funny.
The actual weiner-mobile. I can't get the song out of my head now that I have made this post. Hope you all don't have the same reaction. Anna was so excited to see the Hot Dog car, we actually headed there first! 
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