the Henry Ford

We talked about the title of todays destination and decided that it is a bit hokey at best.  The Ford Rouge tour, the Henry Ford Museum, and Greenfield Village are all a destination called "the Henry Ford". We were not so impressed with the name but the place was a lot of fun.  I wish I could post a lot of pictures but  you will have to be impressed with just one.  This is a locomotive called the Alleghanny and it was Troy's favorite part of the museum.
  We started out with the Greenfield Village.  This is an assortment of buildings with impressive inventions and historical artifacts that Henry Ford found significant.  The Wright Brothers, Edison, Webster, and others.  We did not make it through even half of the 90 acres of the village before a downpour soaked us and we were driven inside along with all of the children from every elementary school in a 50 mile radius.  (school is still in here for another week).
  The museum was terrific.  It was, as you would imagine, filled with cars.  However, it has a huge variety of things that I never imagined, like furniture, doll houses, clocks, pewter dishes, and farm equipment.  I really liked the steam engines too.  They were very impressive.  My favorite part of the museum was the scaled down models of the steam engines that I could look at to see the workings clearly.
  Then there was the Ford factory tour.  This was very impressive.  I would love to say I have some photos to share, but there are none.  They forbid photos there as one might expect.  I was bummed about that.  I did thoroughly enjoy watching a Ford F150 being assembled.  I know one thing is absolutely certain.  I am very glad I am going to school to be a librarian and not an auto worker.  Their job does not look the least bit appealing to me.  I would not want to do that for a living at all.

Tomorrow - Frankenmuth - the Bavarian Inn