Finally had time to get back on the motorcycle today! I feel, due to weather and other restrictions, that I am riding less this year than previous years. I hope that changes as the summer goes on. Riding is one of the few things that helps me to relax and de-stress. Looking back, it appears that this is the first ride since April 29th, that’s almost two months! It was real nice to be back on it though and the 68.1 mile ride was very nice. I don’t have a map of this particular trip though, as I honestly do not remember the route I took. I need to save money and get a GPS that allows me to upload map overlays so I will be more easily able to keep track of where I have gone. Putting the maps in by hand (which is what I normally do) is very time consuming and tedious, additionally it becomes a big problem when I don’t remember the full route like today. It’s hard to remember the route though when we are exploring roads we have never been on before.
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A Day at Bronner’s
In a rare occurrence Melissa and I both had the day off today, so we decided to take a trip up to Frankenmuth to go to Bronner’s. Neither of us had been up there in quite a while, so we decided that seeing as we had nothing else planned, and an entire day available, that we would take the ride up and look around. We picked up a few new Christmas ornaments (big surprise considering they are the worlds largest Christmas store) but mainly just walked around the store for over three hours, and still didn’t see everything. After we were done there we actually drove down into Frankenmuth to see the town, I think I would like to go back up there in the early fall to see the leaves change and actually walk around. Afterward we went to Tony’s Restaurant off I-75 in Birch Run, the food is delicious, the portions are huge, the service is great, and the atmosphere is fun. We had a very nice day, and it was even nicer because we actually got to go out and do something rather than just sit at home.
Fairy Door Hunt
A while ago Melissa came home from work with a piece of paper talking about Fairy Doors and how they are scattered around Ann Arbor. We had talked about it being a good way for us to do some more adventuring around Ann Arbor, something we have wanted to do for a while but never have the time, and then forgot about it. Last night Melissa found this piece of paper again and found there was a link on the paper to Urban Fairies. We checked it out and decided that today, after she got done with work, we would go on a hunt. It was rather interesting and we got to adventure around Ann Arbor and visit stores we otherwise would not. We had a very yummy iced Chai Tea at Sweetwaters Cafe, and I would like to go back there one day. We took a lot of pictures of the doors we found as well. Though we did not get to see the one located inside the Ann Arbor Google office because they were closed, it was still a very nice and fun day.
Touring Ann Arbor
Today Melissa and I decided to take advantage of the nice weather and go take some pictures of the University of Michigan campus, mainly around the Law Quad due to how much I like the old stone buildings. We didn’t realize that this was also the weekend that they were having there open house for incoming freshman. This was actually a good thing, as we realized that the Michigan Union was open and got to go in and walk around the union as well. It was a nice time and I think the pictures came out pretty nice too. I took a couple of sets to try and make some more HDR images, and I like the way most of those came out too