A Sunny Day!

Friday, August 28, 2015
It was 46 degrees when we got up this morning BUT there was sunshine and the promise of a warmer day.  In fact, it finally got up into the lower 70s before the day came to a close. A glance out our window revealed lots of natural beauty.

By 10:30 we were on the road first heading to our friends, Bill and Terri Halbert, home in Bloomfield Township.  What a beautiful place.  They got it just a couple of years ago shortly before they were married.  Bill was a college friend of Ken's and the guy who gave us a pup tent for a wedding gift in anticipation of a canoe trip we'd be doing later that year.  Now Bill and Terri are the proud owners of a 32 foot motorhome that has given them the opportunity to travel with their kids and grandkids. (They actually have two MH at the moment as they bought this one in the spring and are still trying to sell their smaller one)

 Bill gave us a tour of the house while Terri was putting the finishing touches on our lunch.  One fun spot was in the basement where he keeps an old jukebox his first wife gave him almost 30 years ago.

 It holds all of his old rock and roll 45 records so we had fun listening to them and watching the mechanism work.

Right next to it he has created a wall arrangement of pennants from all of the colleges he, Kathy (his first wife) and four children and their spouses have attended.  It makes a very impressive display.

 Kathy and Terri had been good friends for years and thus Bill and Terri found solace in each other when they each lost their spouses to cancer.  The tour included walking along the common green space behind their house to Wing Lake, a peaceful little lake great for canoeing and kyaking.

 On the way we passed a home built by Edsel Ford back in 1929 when he owned all the land in this little community of nine homes.  But he never lived in it since before he finished land became available in Grosse Pointe on Lake St Clare and he ended up moving there instead.  But what a beautiful place it is.

By the time we returned Terri had the delicious food on the table ready for us to enjoy together.

Following lunch we had some time to relax and chat on their huge deck

before we had to say good bye so we could get to General RV out in White Lake Township for our appointment to have them check our tow break (which they declared unfixable by them).

Because both I 75 and Dixie were closed along our route home (due to an accident investigation) we had to do some detouring that took us by a Dollar Tree where we stopped to pick up a couple of items and then Ollie's which has moved into the same plaza.  I like to keep my eyes open for possible rally basket items for the Florida State Rally so love going into places like that (in fact I found a couple of items)

By that time it was closing in on 6:00 so we decided to go to Wing Lauk a favorite Chinese restaurant that was very close by to have dinner and hope that the roads would open before we continued on back to the campground. (and they did open up)

We were home just a very short time and then had to head back out to drive to Rochester and the Classic Lanes where Scott's band, Leah and the Troublemakers, was entertaining for part of the evening.  

This was their last gig as two of the guitar players are off to college. His girlfriend, Bella, plays in a band as well and they also were entertaining tonight.