Adventures in Detroit, and Beyond...

This past weekend was very exciting! I took a long weekend for Easter and flew up to Detroit for a little adventure with Barak, Willie, and Bill Davis. As usual, it left us with many memories and funny stories about our random little adventures! We got a snazzy little rental car and putted around in the snow (yes, SNOW in April) for a few days, enjoying Mongolian BBQ on Main Street, church services at a Detroit landmark, and lunch in Canada. That's right, Canada! My 9th grade geography teacher would be very disappointed, but I never realized that Canada bordered Detroit. But go figure, as soon as we exited church, there was the tunnel straight to the world of ice hockey, eh! So, we figured we'd head across the border for lunch. As we drove around, I realized how depressing it must be to live someplace where the warmest spot is equivalent to our country's coldest spot! But it was a nice little uneventful drive & lunch around Windsor. That is, until we tried to get back to our homeland. Apparently years of crossing into Mexico without having to show much more than a driver's license messed with our minds, because we didn't even think that there would be any problem with our return trip. After all, how big is the illegal immigration problem along the Canadian border, really? But we soon found out that we were wrong when our Border Patrol agent all but threatened to keep us out of the USA for good! Actually, he was very nice but was definitely confused by the fact that we were a car full of Californians in Michigan, one of whom has a Kentucky license and another who lives in North Carolina, and we just happened to be spending Easter lunch in Canada! We tried to become friends and asked him questions about his daughter who is a dancer and spends a year or two at a time living in different states. "You see," I tried to explain, "we are kind of like your daughter...moving around to different states right now, just not as a dancer." To which he exclaimed, "What?!?! You're exotic dancers???" I'm not sure if that's what got us back in the country or not, but whatever the case, I am back home again! For more stories about our adventures, check out Barak's blog: www.operationd-town.blogspot.com. And I will post a separate one to chronicle my journey back home. Let's just say, it wasn't funny at the time, but I can laugh about it now! And I'll post some of this weekend's pics too.