Having a wonderful time in Detroit

Well, I’ve finally found a moment to sit down with my computer and type up a blog post. Nora and I are having a wonderful time in Detroit, though to be strictly honest we haven’t actually spent much time in Detroit. We’ve spent our first two days in Dearborn, at the Henry Ford Museum. We thought we’d be able to knock out the indoor museum and its outdoor counterpart, Greenfield Village, in one day, but that proved ridiculously overoptimistic. We spent a day at each and still left feeling like there was stuff we hadn’t seen. After the museum closed yesterday, we drove around the U of M campus in Dearborn and walked around the grounds of the Henry Ford estate, the buildings of which are currently closed for renovation until 2013 … but the grounds and gardens are lovely. It was too damn hot to walk around outside for too long, though. All of SE Michigan is currently under a heat advisory.

I’m not 100% sure what we’re going to do today. We were going to go bike riding along the riverwalk, but if it’s going to be 90+ degrees again, I just don’t know. But if we’re going to hit Belle Isle, it will have to be today, because we need to have tomorrow for the Detroit Institute of Arts, and then Thursday we only have a short day before we get on the plane for NYC so … decisions, decisions. I think we’ll start with the Edsel & Eleanor Ford house in Grosse Pointe and go from there.

That being the plan, I’d better go wake up my layabed daughter and get moving.