Day 2

It is not every day that I get to have great experiences like today. It really was a wonderful day. I didn't  know that when I woke up I would spend part of my time in rooms with great works of art or on the roads of Detroit looking at once vast auto empires gone to ruins. Well, that is just how I spent my time.

This morning:

We started out on an adventure with a little shopping. Then it was off to visit with Dave and Sue, Troy's long time friends and my recent friends. We were off to adventure around Detroit with them for the day. It was some adventure too. We went riding around the areas where they grew up, and their old neighborhoods were more like burned out shells than the homes they remembered. Very sad was the comment they used repeatedly.

After we rode around the area for some time we came upon the old Packard factory. It was once a great business and a real empire of a car factory. Now it is just a real shadow of what it was and it is rapidly going away. What the vandals have not destroyed, the elements will take care of soon. I suppose eventually someone may tear it down. I am glad that I got to see it before it is gone though, even in the state it is in. Detroit once boomed!

Finally with Dave and Sue I saw the DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts. OMG! Monet, Rembrandt, Picasso, Van Gogh, Degas, Matisse, and Constable. What a great gift to stand in the room with such great works of art. I did not know that Detroit had all of that in their museum. It was such a treat that I barely kept from crying with excitement. I wish I had pictures. I did get some postcards and a refrigerator magnet from the gift shop though.

Last thing of the day, we met with Troy's cousin Jody and her husband Dan. We had a wonderful dinner and then went back to their house. We had a terrific visit with them. What a terrific way to end such a fantastic day. Day two has been phenomenal.