My Weekend In Michigan

Hi everyone! It's been a few days, but I've been pretty occupied. As you guys know (or hoping you do), I just spent a long weekend over in Michigan with Dan. I had a great time, we both did. We did a whole bunch of stuff and I took a ton of pictures. I got back last night, much to my dismay, and today is back to the grind at work, which I'm not looking forward to at all. I'd rather drive the 7 hours back to stay with him again. Anyway, getting off subject, here's a big ol' bunch of pictures I took.

When I first got there on Wednesday night, we just kind of hung out together and soaked in the fact that we were actually physically together, which was perfect. The next day, he took me on a walk around the campus, and we ended up walking around the disc golf course. Of course it still looked like November was in swing with the trees still working on blossoming, but that was okay. It was beautiful outside. Along the way, we found some Iron Man mask laying on the ground, so of course we had to take pictures :)

Thursday was also Dan's birthday, so while he went to class later that day, I made him a birthday cake. And also discovered that I'm not too great with making cakes. Cupcakes turn out great, but cakes don't seem to like me.

He invited some of his friends over, and we sang happy birthday, had some cake (which still tasted great, I might add) and then we all went out to dinner and then went bowling. I sucked, of course, but it was still a good time. 

Friday we actually played disc golf this time, and later went out to eat at one of my favorite restaurants over there, Lockharts. They have every kind of barbecue you could ask for and it always tastes delicious. Remind me next time to get pictures. 

On Saturday we headed off to a Detroit Tigers game downtown, which was a blast! We won, 5-2. Only negative, we both got sunburnt. 

The stadium is pretty neat, it has tigers all over the place, plus the big one out in front that everyone was trying to get a picture in front of. After the game we managed to get up there and snap a few shots (bottom left). I've never been to a baseball game before, but it was enough to get me interested. 

After the game, we decided to walk around Detroit a little, just to see a few things within the area of the stadium.

It's pretty funny, there's this big bobble head of Pavel Datsyuk (a Red Wings player for those of you that know hockey) just hanging out in the middle of this place, along with this goofy fish head that's right across from the Detroit Opera House. New goal: go to the Opera House one day. It's hard to see, but the top left picture is of the GM building in Detroit. We could see it from the front of the stadium. The top middle is the corner of the Opera House with this big mural of whales on the side of another building. The middle left is this nifty statue that is normally a fountain when it's nice outside. The dead center picture is the Fox Theatre, and the one below it is the Fillmore, right next to each other. The bottom right is the Motor City casino, which lights up all different colors at night. I actually really like Detroit, and I wish people knew more about the awesome things to see versus all the bad stuff they hear on the news. 

Later that night, Dan and I got all dressed up for a date night at Maggiano's. It's by far one of my favorite restaurants. And yes, we do match. We were both wearing teal. 

Being the new 21 year old that he is, Dan ordered his first glass of wine with dinner... and hated it. It wasn't too great, I had to help him finish it. Overall, though, the food was excellent and our waiter was a pretty cool guy. It was a really nice, romantic night. 

Sunday was Easter, so we got dressed up again and went to this cute little church I found in the area. It was good to go, and I really liked it. It was very small, but comfortable. Everyone there was nice, and the pastor took a moment to say hi and talk with us a little. After that, we decided to go to IHOP for breakfast, where we had these yummy crepes. And I learned that it's a thing for Fin people to call them skinny pancakes. I never knew that before. 

Quick funny story: when we got there, the place was packed and we had to wait a few minutes for a table, so the girl took down Dan's name, Dan K. While we were waiting, the greeters switched and when the guy called us up, instead of realizing that the K was the first letter of his last name, he called him Dank. I nearly lost it, and now it's a thing. I'm calling him Dank now. 

Anyway, the crepes were delicious. I had never been to an IHOP before, so now I know that I need to find one around here to go to. After we got back, we hung out for a while and took a short nap before we dyed some Easter eggs and made dinner. 

Dan eventually had to start working on his homework, and I read for a while before we went to bed. And then yesterday, Monday, I packed up my stuff and headed home. And let me tell you, driving there is one thing, driving home is a completely different story. Until I'm about an hour away, all I want to do is turn around and go back, and then after that all I want to do is get home so I can work on getting back to my life. But a 7 hour drive doesn't allow for that. I won't depress you with the trip home, not when there's all this stuff to look back on and smile about. It was a wonderful weekend, and I'm so glad I got to go. 

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter, as well! Have a great Tuesday, everyone!