The end of last week, I thought I was going a little crazy. I had never noticed that the lightposts in Belleville were a red/rust color. I asked Brian about it and he didn't think they had ever been that color before either. The beginning of this week as I was going into Belleville, I noticed that there was a work crew painting the lightposts this red/rust color. I thought that it looked a little strange with blue banners hanging from each one, but just thought they might want to change the look a little. This morning, the mystery was solved. There was another work crew painting the red/rust colored posts back to black. We decided that the red/rust color must have been some sort of primer or something and the black is the paint.
It really is rather disturbing to wonder if you really missed something so noticeable for two months. I'm glad it wasn't just me!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Life in the Big City
It has been an exciting few days! We have ventured beyond Belleville and really enjoyed ourselves the last few days. Here's a recap of what we've done.
Thursday night we went to a new Metropark (Willow) to see the Detroit Symphony Orchestra perform a free concert in the outdoors. We made dinner and then lugged our chairs in front of the stage to watch the concert. It was an amazing concert and actually made me wish I had a bassoon to play. Unfortunately, no pictures were allowed. I think our favorite song was "Habanera" by Bizet because we play Donkey Konga to the tune. I especially loved the patriotic songs they played as an encore.
Friday we both worked. I'm working on my first project for my job at the library. Once a month I will host a movie night for children/parents at the library. I had to work on choosing movies to show and making flyers for them. I decided on James and the Giant Peach for September (Roald Dahl's birthday month), Monster House for October, Fly Away Home for November (National Aviation Month), and The Santa Clause for December. Any suggestions for the months beyond that? They have to be G or PG and family-friendly. Brian is also working on a project for work, so he is pretty excited to have something to do at work. In the evening we ventured to Ann Arbor to check out a new mall.
Today Brian's parents came to visit for the first time since we moved. They picked us up and we went to Cabela's for a while. It is great fun to look around that store. We then went to Automotive Hall of Fame for free with our library museum passes and drove past our church and my work on the way home. The museum was a good one, right by the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. There was a classic car show there today, so Brian got his fix of old cars in.
This week will be an interesting one since Brian will be in Sheboygan, Wisconsin the end of the week and I will be working different hours due to the end of the Summer Reading Club. We're back in GR next weekend to see friends, so we've got lots to look forward to.
Thursday night we went to a new Metropark (Willow) to see the Detroit Symphony Orchestra perform a free concert in the outdoors. We made dinner and then lugged our chairs in front of the stage to watch the concert. It was an amazing concert and actually made me wish I had a bassoon to play. Unfortunately, no pictures were allowed. I think our favorite song was "Habanera" by Bizet because we play Donkey Konga to the tune. I especially loved the patriotic songs they played as an encore.
Friday we both worked. I'm working on my first project for my job at the library. Once a month I will host a movie night for children/parents at the library. I had to work on choosing movies to show and making flyers for them. I decided on James and the Giant Peach for September (Roald Dahl's birthday month), Monster House for October, Fly Away Home for November (National Aviation Month), and The Santa Clause for December. Any suggestions for the months beyond that? They have to be G or PG and family-friendly. Brian is also working on a project for work, so he is pretty excited to have something to do at work. In the evening we ventured to Ann Arbor to check out a new mall.
Today Brian's parents came to visit for the first time since we moved. They picked us up and we went to Cabela's for a while. It is great fun to look around that store. We then went to Automotive Hall of Fame for free with our library museum passes and drove past our church and my work on the way home. The museum was a good one, right by the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. There was a classic car show there today, so Brian got his fix of old cars in.
This week will be an interesting one since Brian will be in Sheboygan, Wisconsin the end of the week and I will be working different hours due to the end of the Summer Reading Club. We're back in GR next weekend to see friends, so we've got lots to look forward to.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Random Pictures
I was going to take a few pictures of my birthday presents from Brian and noticed I had a few random pictures on the camera. Thought I'd share them with you folks.
This is the stuffed guinea pig that Brian got me from IKEA.
I fell in love with it back in April the first time we went to IKEA in Canton.
It needs a name. Any suggestions?
Brian also got me some lovely flowers to go along with the guinea pig.
A few weeks ago we finally purchased a hair trimmer to cut Brian's hair with. I decided to take pictures to show what a wonderful job cutting hair I really can do. And his hair was really long, so you can actually see the difference.
Before
During
After
This is the stuffed guinea pig that Brian got me from IKEA.
I fell in love with it back in April the first time we went to IKEA in Canton.
It needs a name. Any suggestions?
Brian also got me some lovely flowers to go along with the guinea pig.
A few weeks ago we finally purchased a hair trimmer to cut Brian's hair with. I decided to take pictures to show what a wonderful job cutting hair I really can do. And his hair was really long, so you can actually see the difference.
Before
During
After
We were home a few weekends ago and I went to Sarah K.'s wedding in which my sister was a bridesmaid. Here's her walking back down the aisle. The dresses were gorgeous!Sunday, July 20, 2008
We actually stayed in Belleville this weekend and had people come to us! Our friends Nick and Kelly were on their way to Canada, so they decided to spend a night with us. It was wonderful to have friends to hang out with again. It gets rather lonely when everyone you care about is 2 1/2 hours away.
We spent Friday night at the Metropark and Saturday morning at IKEA before they left to get to Canada for Nick to preach on Sunday morning. It was nice to hang out with them again although I am a bit confused as to why Brian is buying them a Vibe before I get one. ;)
This week we plan to go to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra concert at the Willow Metropark on Thursday evening. It's free and I'm very excited about going! I haven't heard good music in a long time!
It also happens to be my birthday on Wednesday, so we will be going out to eat sometime this week to celebrate that. Something better than McDonald's even! And I have a free ice cream at Coldstone's, so we definitely will be taking advantage of that.
I will post a slide show of pictures from our North Manitou trip from Memorial Day soon.
We spent Friday night at the Metropark and Saturday morning at IKEA before they left to get to Canada for Nick to preach on Sunday morning. It was nice to hang out with them again although I am a bit confused as to why Brian is buying them a Vibe before I get one. ;)
This week we plan to go to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra concert at the Willow Metropark on Thursday evening. It's free and I'm very excited about going! I haven't heard good music in a long time!
It also happens to be my birthday on Wednesday, so we will be going out to eat sometime this week to celebrate that. Something better than McDonald's even! And I have a free ice cream at Coldstone's, so we definitely will be taking advantage of that.
I will post a slide show of pictures from our North Manitou trip from Memorial Day soon.
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