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Detroit and surrounding area
Anyone lived, visited?
Any recommendations for sites to see and stuff to do?
We are headed there in September and I'd love to see a couple museums and visits some tourist attractions.
TIA
Re: Detroit and surrounding area
I spent a fair amount of time in Michigan as a kid because my maternal grandma lived there. But I don't remember spending any time in Detroit really (she lived more than 2 hours away). We did go to Holland, Michigan, which is not far from Detroit. It's a Dutch themed area, kind of like Solvang is with all things Danish. They even have an amusement park called Dutch Village that was fun to go to as a kid. You can get your own wooden shoes made. And there's Windmill Island where you can tour an authentic Dutch windmill.
http://holland.org/
http://www.dutchvillage.com/
http://www.cityofholland.com/windmillislandgardens/windmill-island-general-information
Nevermind me saying it's close to Detroit. I was having a brain fart. It's close to Grand Rapids, where she lived. It's 3 hours from Detroit. Sorry!
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Thanks H for the thought!
That's probably a little far for this trip, but I will definitely keep it in mind for another future trip to MI.
The family we are headed to visit live about 40 minutes from the Detroit airport in a burb. I think DH and I are going to take a day (with DS too) and head into the city to check it all out.
I asked if we could go to the trailer park that Marshall Mathers grew up in.
I posted on the Detroit local board so I'm sure they'll have some good suggestions.
Thank you!!!
where exactly in suburban detroit are you going to be ? .. my dad lived in SE MI for nearly 20 years (he's in OH now) and i spent 5 years there as a kid myself.
if you're w/in an hr of detroit .. there's ford farms, lots of auto museums (check out the one in yipsilanti - its the last hudson dealership), downtown ann arbor, belle isle park - that's all i can think off of the top of my head.
SIL and her family live in West Bloomfield. Thanks for all the ideas...I've been searching google and yelp this morning. I think there will definitely be a lot of driving because everything is so spread out.
It is also DS's first time on a plane, so I'm trying to prep myself for both the travel and the actual trip.
if my memory serves me right .. you'll be in the northwest burbs .. eminmen's trailer park will be b/t you and the airport :P i'd check out ford farms and dearborn since those would be the closest places to you.