Friday, May 23Our motel in Detroit, the Riverview Sheraton, is in the financial district and has a great view of the river and Windsor. Our room is nice except for one extremely odd feature. The bathroom door is made of glass and although it is textured glass, when someone is in the bathroom you can see them clearly!! Thank goodness we are family!
After settling in, we walked over to the Renaissance Center, an enormous cluster of attached buildings on the river. The area has a GM showroom, Marriott, and many offices, shops and restaurants. Our bellhop said he has never made his way through the whole place and still gets lost in there. We saw many bright shiny new cars all over in there and wondered how they got them on the upper floors.
Detroit has a really neat elevated train called the People Mover. It snakes all around the downtown and along the river, making 13 stops. For 50 cents it is a real deal. We got on and rode the whole route, a nice way to get a look at some of the city. After this, Brian headed back to the room for some sanity time without the parental units and Rodney and I walked along the river and civic center area. There is going to be a Red Bull world series competition of ? light planes next week-end and there was a frenzy of prepratory activity going on- scaffoldings being put up, huge tents, port a potties, etc. We were mightly glad we'll be out of Dodge before that event!
In the late p.m. we boarded the people mover again and rode over to the ballpark area. Comerica Park is right near the Detroit Opera House, kind of an interesting combo. We all liked the ballpark a lot, it has lots of neat sculptures and decorations and the park has lots of personality. Our seats were 6th row back on the 3rd base side. The people around us were friendly and the place had a nice family feel. Lady luck was on our side again. It was Polish American day and before the game about 100 children dressed in colorful native clothes performed a show of native dances. A man then sang the Polish national anthem and the American anthem before the game. We also discovered that every Fri. eve after home games they have fireworks. They turned out the floodlights and the show was fantastic.
We saw a few home runs, lots of doubles and triples and some great plays. Unfortunately most of them were by Minnesota and Detroit lost 9-4. Oh well.
By the way, we probably should have mentioned earlier on in the blog that, after 17 years with Horace Mann, Rodney has retired. His last day of work was the Friday before we left.
On to Chicago!!!!
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Congratulations to Rodney on his retirement!
Sure is fun, enjoying your adventure via blog!
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