Dinner in Dearborn (middle eastern food)

While in the Detroit area in November, a co-worker (Adnan) from Michigan took us (Victor, Tatsuo and I) to eat dinner and ice cream in Dearborn, Michigan. Dearborn has a huge population of immigrants from the Middle East, so there are a lot of Middle Eastern Restaurants. The one we went to - Al Ameer - was Lebanese (I think) At Al Ameer we were served a huge whole fried fish which was very tasty - but it still had the head - which I had never actually seen before. (I didn't eat the head!) After we had eaten I was disappointed that I had not remembered to take a picture of it! The Shatila Bakery and Cafe where we had ice cream after dinner was absolutely beautiful inside - and they had some delicious ice cream. It was a very interesting trip because many of the signs there are in Arabic or other languages that i am not familiar with.

Drive-By Fall colors

Detroit Tigers Baseball

I had to go to the Detroit area again earlier this month for work and this time, went to see a Tigers baseball game. The ballpark was absolutely beautiful!

Credits: Atomic Cupcake, Labels - Amy W. Designs; Tigers Logos from internet; Baseball - NanaC Designs; EngrvrsOldEng Bd BT, Franklin Gothic Book, and Arial Fonts

Michigan Snow Pics

Credits: Let it snow kit by SchmooAngel

Credits: Snow Kit by Digitreats; Attic and Arial fonts

More Ice

This was a little scary - we were on the runway getting ready to take off when the engine all of the sudden seemed to just slow down. Then the pilot said that they had stopped because they needed to de-ice the wings. Well, that was pretty scary because I had heard of bad things happening to planes when their wings froze up!! But everything was just fine and I even got a picture!

Credits: Wonderland Kit - Atomic Cupcake; Frame - lizandherbabes; Vellum Tag - Ruth Singer at sugarshackscraps; Snowdrift and Dominican Italic fonts

Snow and Ice!

I'm Back in Detroit for another week. While flying in, I fell asleep for awhile-then woke up to this site:

There was snow EVERYWHERE!!

This time we (the same 3 of us as before - Karen, Tatsuo and I) went to see the Plymouth Ice Festival the evening we flew in. It was really neat to see all the ice sculptures - but also REALLY cold. (I think it was like being in an icebox!) Here are some pictures I took:

Scooby Doo and the gang!

A week in Detroit

Last week I was in Detroit for some training for work. I had never been there before so it was pretty interesting. There were 2 of us from El Paso going for the training, and at the last minute, we found out that another co-worker was going up there at the same time for a totally different reason (She is actually going to be moving up there for 2 years) and we were all on the same flight and staying at the same hotel. So we kind of decided to all just hang out together for the week. When we first got there, we were kind of disappointed because there was no snow on the ground. Then Monday night it snowed just for us, it seemed. It was very pretty but I thought it would be much colder than it actually felt. I think the dry cold here at home is much colder than the damp cold up there!! Anyway, here are a few pictures from that trip.