We left last Wed. morning (6/21), headed for Chicago to see the Cardinals play the White Sox that evening. We arrived at our hotel about 2, only to discover our reservation had been changed to another hotel without us knowing. We had planned on staying at the Palmer House Hilton which is over by the Sears Tower and more affordable than Michigan Ave. I was not very happy about this game of musical hotels, but it was out of my control. So we headed over to our new hotel which was right in the middle of the magnificent mile-- YIPPEE! I also told the guy at check in about our ordeal, so he ended up giving us a corner suite on Michigan Ave.-- it was great! Unfortunately, the Cardinals lost the game that evening 13-5 and the White Sox's ballpark was nothing to brag about.
The next day we went to the Field Museum and saw the King Tut exhibit as well as an exhibit on evolution and the history of the Earth, which was quite fascinating. Then we headed down to Navy Pier to shop and take a ride on the Ferris Wheel.
Friday, we were driving from Chicago to Detroit, a drive Yahoo said was suppose to take 4.5 hours, but Brian drives pretty fast, so we typically arrive sooner. We sat in so much construction traffic it took over 7 hours to get to our hotel, which was actually in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, which is right across the Detroit River from downtown Detroit. Our hotel was right on the river, we had a beautiful view of the skyline, the river, and a beautiful park that stretched the entire river bank (see pics).
That night we went out for a fancy steak and lobster dinner on the riverfront and then stayed out clubbing until after 3 am, it was a very late night, but definitely worth it.
The next day we went out to lunch, watched a tug boat race which was really cool and then went to a casino which was a few hotels down. I lost all my money in about 10 minutes, but Brian won about $100 playing video poker, so we left the Casino with our winnings and headed across the street to that park, which was having a Summerfest with a Carnival and entertainment. We rode three pretty intense rides and then boarded a bus, to take us across the border to downtown Detroit for the game. (I will blog about the uselessness of Customs on a different day.) The Cardinals lost again 7-6 in 11 innings, and the people of Detroit kinda lived up to their negative reputations, but their ballpark is beautiful. Their team is the Tigers, and there are Tiger statues and claw marks all over, there's a merry-go-round inside the stadium with tigers instead of horses and they even had a Ferris wheel with baseballs as the gondolas. We had great seats 18 rows behind our dugout and the food was excellent for a ballpark. Wish the people had been nicer, I think we were spoiled in Canada since everyone there was so friendly (which is also a blog for another day). After the game, we returned to Canada to drowned our sorrows and then headed home the next morning. We had a great time and have now gone to 10 out-of-town ballparks, we are already 1/3 of the way done!
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