Thursday October 9 2014

This day we went to the Henry Ford museum. I didn’t know this but this museum was very large. It took us almost four hours to go through it. It was so neat! First since its Henry Ford they had all kinds of old to new cars. The cars were everywhere, it even had Presidential cars, we got to see President Regan’s car to President Teddy Roosevelt’s car. It’s funny because they were all so different and we got to see where the Secret Service would ride around the car. The whole museum was a timeline of different vehicles but we didn’t follow the timeline we were just everywhere.

The second part was trains. There was this one train that was just so huge! Jeff stood next to it and you can see just how huge it was. It was so massive that it made the other trains looks so small. The other train they had that I thought was neat was a plow train. Very interesting! In the museum they had a working McDonalds in a train car. What? Yeah I was blown away by that. In the front of the train car McDonalds was the old neon sign and a classic car in the middle of it.

Third part was airplanes. It had the write brother’s plane, it was so simple paired to the others. Still really neat. There was this other plane you could go into it was from a long time ago. It was funny because first class was wicker chairs. That cracked me up! Also they didn’t have seat belts. Charles Lindbergh’s The Spirit of the Saint Louis plane was there. Amazing! Also with all the vehicles there were buttons you could press to either hear audio or watch tiny videos on the displays.

There weren’t just vehicles there were other displays there. Like Lincoln’s chair he got shot in. I even saw Rosa Parks’s bus and I could see where she sat. They had kitchens through the centuries. I only took a picture of the 1930’s I thought that one was the neatest. Lamps and stoves through the centuries, very interesting to see them all. Also had these doll houses, the doll houses were very detailed it was crazy.

There was this one part were we go through the centuries of just stuff. We thought it was funny to go through the 80’s and 90’s centuries because a lot that stuff Jeff had or I had as a kid. For example I had a Game Boy and a Furby, to see them in a display case made me feel a little old. But it was neat to see that stuff and bring back some memories. Also Jeff use to tell me he had bag phone. These phones were the earliest invention of the cell phone. So yes had to take a picture of that. I have never really seen one person just on the internet.

That museum so far is the coolest museum I have seen in a long time.

The second half of he day we switched hotels. We stayed in the fanciest hotel I have seen or had the pleasure of staying. One thing you got to know about me is I hate fancy. I hate fancy restaurants, stores and hotels. Because I feel that I do not belong and I can’t stand snobby people. I do not how but Jeff convinced me that we have to stay in a fancy hotel at least once in our life. We stayed at The Henry and it was a Marriott “Autograph” hotel, just another way to say fancy hotel. When we walked in it was so very neat to see. First you walk in and see the biggest chandelier like ever. All the employees are wearing suits and dresses. As we were walking to the elevators the walls are covered in art work. I thought that was really neat to see. When we got to our room I am almost past out because it was so huge! Once you walk in there is one tiny bathroom and the living room with a really cool view of Detroit (11th Floor). Then the bedroom and an extremely large bathroom. As you walk into the bathroom you walk right into the beauty area, and then when you turn there is another room where there is a shower and tub. The bathroom is covered in marble. The bathroom was like a studio apartment big. People could live in there. That is how big it was!

For extra cost we got Concierge floor access which means we got to go this floor where they have fancy food, alcohol and beverages all you can eat, for no extra cost. We ate caviar; I have never had caviar in my life. If you didn’t know caviar it is fish eggs. I thought that they would be disgusting but they weren’t. I was surprised. Also you could have as much alcohol and drinks as you wanted. Totally took advantage of the coffee and creamers they had. Jeff and I are not big drinkers so the alcohol wasn’t really a big deal. However Jeff is a soda fiend so all you can drink soda and I am a coffee fiend so we were happy. Were funny! There were some snobby people in this area, they were stupid, but of course we mostly stayed in our room. The staff were all really nice and I felt a little bad for them having to work with snobby costumers, yeah I thought about that.

For the first time in my life we ordered room service. I have never had room service because I always think it’s expensive. I am a bit of a thrifty person. But like my husband said you have to at least get it once in your life. So we did I got fancy Mac N Cheese which wasn’t all that good and Jeff got a burger and fries. We also got these buffalo wraps which were really good. When Jeff ordered food the person on the other end answered the phone “How can I help you Jeff. Jeff thought that was the coolest thing. I thought so because never had that before. I could tell we were staying in a fancy hotel.