Friday today we went to the Henry Ford Museum which is on the same sight as Greenfield Village and going to both of these places are fond memories from when I lived in Michigan. Cory, Kyla and I toured the museum and I had loads of fun pretending to be a hot dog filler, climbing into a big tractor and singing on MTV amongst many other things. We went to the childrens area and played with all the building stuff and made “cars” to race down the little hills. This is where the rest of the family joined us and we then continued our tour around the museum. There were some things I remembered from when I was younger like the Weinermobile and trains but there was also lots of different things. I saw the chair that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in at the opera/ show and there was an amazing civil rights department which I found really interesting after studying it last year. The most amazing thing was that they had the Rosa Parks bus in the museum! It had been found in a scrap yard and people figured out that it was that bus by the serial number and the Henry Ford museum had got it and refurbished it and I sat on the very seat that Rosa Parks had refused to give up to a white man- amazing! Cory and Mr. Hurst decided to go and wait outside for us so Kyla, Mrs. Hurst and I finished the rest of the museum. Kyla sat on a bench whilst we looked at the trains and cars (the cars area is currently being re-done so it was pretty quick to look around this time). Kyla had managed to avoid talking to a man who had seemed to talk to everyone who passed by then when we came back to take a picture in front of the train he asked her to take a picture, we then ended up talking to this man for a VERY long time!! He was very knowledgeable and interesting but every time we tried to leave he started talking again and we ended up having a photo with him and looking at his photos on his phone and hearing about loads and loads of other things. Eventually we left and some Henry Ford staff asked us if he was trying to sell us anything as he had been talking to us for so long!
We left the museum and went to a place called Antonio’s for dinner it was a lovely Italian place and there was a lady sitting in a little room at the entrance making all the pastas in a giant pasta making machine. I had my first spaghetti carbonara of my trip and I could certainly taste the fresh homemade pasta. We order ice cream/ gelato at the end of the meal, there was some confusion when Mrs. Hurst’s three scoops of ice cream came out as a giant ice cream sundae! It was all delicious! After we returned home we watched some movies from when Cory and I were at school together including our leaving cd with loads of pictures on! I also got to see loads of Cory’s school videos including a book review about Franklin playing soccer and a hilarious home movie/ book report type thing in his back yard based on ‘The Pearl’, they were hilarious!! After this we did something really exciting which I have always wanted to do… we went to a drive in movie! They really do exist although are fairly rare. We went to see The Help which was a great movie and I can’t wait to read the book. We went with Val (Kyla’s friend who I have met loads of time and is amazing) plus Kyla, Cory and myself. We parked the car with the trunk facing the screen then opened it up and layed in the trunk on towels and blankets. I also sat outside the car on a fold up chair, it was a really neat experience. I slept in the car on the way home, it has been a very action packed week.
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