Detroit Rock City

Although I was sad to be leaving Cleveland, we had to get moving on to our next stop: Detroit! I'll admit, I was a little scared. But we never actually went into the city.

There is a lot of cool stuff to see outside of Detroit, such as the Henry Ford Museum, which was recommended by my dad.

The museum houses such gems as:

An original McD's sign

The car in which JFK was shot. The hard top was added later because, and this is a little freaky, they continued to use this car to transport presidents. Seriously.

Josh got to pretend to steer a locomotive.

Josh's dad, grandfather and an uncle
are all railroaders for Union Pacific.

I got to pretend to be a Barnstormer

George Washington's camp cot

The chair Lincoln was sitting in when he was assassinated. Yes, that's blood on the back.

The actual bus in which Rosa Parks refused to move to the back.

She was sitting where Josh is sitting.

Here I am being caged by the bonds of patriarchy in the Women's Liberation exhibit

Of course, there were also Model Ts. This exhibit shows how they were constructed.

There was an exhibit about how homelife changed over the century. I'm standing in the '80s room, which reminded me of my sisters' rooms.

This exhibit made me nostalgic for life in high school.

The Weinermobile

The infamous Detroit Josh Dog

We're probably going to have to come back because the museum has a second part, Greenfield Village, which was closed due to the season.

Thankfully, the Detroit temple is not actually in Detroit but Bloomfield Hills, which is a very affluent suburb.

It was snowing a little.

Although it's in a nice area, this temple is small and pretty plain. It was built in 1999, which makes it similar to all of the other small temples built at that time (e.g. Palmyra). We did, however, get to see how they trained temple workers (basically just by job shadowing).

Temple #40, yo.

We were in Detroit for less than 24 hours, and then went off again with Chicago in our sights!