Quick Michigan Trip
I made a quick trip to Michigan and by a happy accident ended up in town at the same time as Pop and Adam. I also got to see Grams, Gramps and Aunt Sharon. It was a really nice trip. My friend Kara got married. You all may remember Kara from when I was in high school. Her, Laura, and I were a formidable threesome back then. Her marriage kicked in the idea that we are grown ups now. Everyone had kids, her older brother was gray headed, even a girl that was a few grades behind us was there and is now a teacher and was three months pregnant. I’m having trouble wrapping my head around this grown-up thing. I think the trick is to realize that we don’t really ever grow up, but we do grow older.
Grampa took me by a house that Great Grandpa Albert had built in Ferndale and that Grandpa had lived in until he was about five. He told us an interesting story. Albert had a Ford Model T that was caput. Back in those days you had to pay the junk yard to take a car, so Grandpa Albert dug a giant hole in the driveway, drove the Model T in, and burried it. To this day there is a Ford Model T burried in their driveway. This fascinates me to no end. I wish I would have taken a picture of the house, but I did take other pictures of the Michigan trip.
Here are the girls together again and Laura dancing with her husband Marland…
Here is the fam, unfortunately minus Alexis and Gary. We need to come up with some sort of yearly sibling reunion…
