First Time in Detroit

We drove all day yesterday to get to Detroit. I mean 12-hours-type-of-all-day. I brought two read-alouds and they boys bought a new PS3 game to help pass the time. Plus I packed good food and snacks.
First thing this morning, we met up with the Verbick familiy at the Henry Ford Museum. Mr. Verbick took a new job with Ford earlier this year, and we had Austin from the hockey team all weekend.

We only had a couple of hours, but you need a couple of days to go through it all properly (or a couple of weeks).

This is an amazing museum at every level: clean, interactive, educational.

Captain enjoyed the show-room floor of Presidential Cadillacs, racing cars, and all the old stuff in between.

Thomas Edison was a great innovator and friend of Henry Ford. He was here at the groundbreaking to put his signature in the cement.

I fell in love with the Greenfield Village (a multi-acre town with a one-room schoolhouse and actual homes of William McGuffey, Robert Frost, Thomas Edison, Wright Brothers, and others). The twins and Austin got a kick out of riding around in the Model Ts.