Well, it is Sunday morning. After I woke up around 7:00 a.m., I find college students lining the hallway outside my bedroom door. I tiptoe quietly down the stairs with computer in hand so that I do not wake them up. With my computer all booted up, I make my first pot of coffee. Yes, this is my usual routine of the morning. Coffee, computer, coffee, computer, coffee, computer. However, I do get to mix it up with sitting outside for awhile. The sun is really shining brightly, the birds are singing louder than yesterday, and a rooster is waking us up somewhere in the distance.
As no person is stirring, I decide that I should start cleaning up the garage to get rid of all the party leftovers. This way we will be able to begin our activities for today earlier than if I waited for others to join me in this endeavor. Hugh finally gets up and we continue to clean the garage together to get rid of the leftovers. Kelly gets up around 9:00 a.m. to join us after the clean-up is now done so that we can admire the view.
Sausage, biscuits and gravy as well as fried eggs is the order of the day! Kelly is busy making this concoction. Oh my! Spicy sausage just makes the gravy taste so much better! Gravy is not my favorite but this was unbelievably tasty! The college students are all now up so we all dig into this delight until we cannot eat anymore.
Around 2:00 p.m., we traveled to Frankenmuth to see what we can find to keep ourselves amused today. We missed the beer festival that ended yesterday but that is okay. I am sure we can find other things to do when we get there. They do have their own brewery and know that they have some fabulous chicken dinners. Well, I have heard the stories anyway. I will not know until we arrive to actually experience the whole affair. I am sure we are in for a grand time. We always do anyway! It will certainly unfold as the day goes on. The best part? The temperature is in the 80s and very sunny! Woo Hoo!
In order to realize our final destination, Hugh drove through an old covered bridge in the downtown section of Michigan's Little Bavaria called Frankenmuth. As we found a parking space in the lot of the Bavarian Inn Restaurant, we could hear polka music. A tent was set up with two people playing music and others sitting around watching. Oh what fun! I remember doing the polka as a young kid at one of the campgrounds that we used to go to during the summers. After listening to the music for a short time, we wandered into the restaurant to head down to the gift shop. Nothing was purchased but the gift shop had a wide variety of tourist items. As we were leaving the building, we noticed that music was playing near the clock up above. A seat was found on one of the benches to the side. Oh my. What is that? The Legend of the Pied Piper is played out with characters coming through the doors on a rotating wheel or some such structure above the clock. This happens on the hour every hour of the day. I had forgotten the story behind the pied piper so it was interesting to relearn this bit of historical knowledge. Oh, the other best part?? People watching.
After watching this piece of history, we wandered down the street looking around at the different shops as we made our way to the Frankenmuth Brewery. Evidently, this brewery was established in 1962 but this is a new building. It is huge!! There is a wide selection of their beers. Kelly and Hugh decided to try a 4 ounce sampling of each but preferred the lighter beers over the red or the dark ale. I had ordered a Red Ale that was to my liking a lot. As a side note, Frankenmuth's founding fathers brought the traditon of brewing to the Mid-Michigan forests in 1845.
Our next stop was Tiffany's on the deck to try another sampling. I had another Tiffany's Red Ale and Hugh and Kelly sampled the very spicy Bloody Marys. What a gorgeous day it was to sit outside. Many other people had the same idea. The place was packed!
Food was next on our minds. Kelly and Hugh's favorite place is Zehnders that is known for the greatest chicken dinners. This place has been around since 1856!! Of course, we sat in the bar as opposed to the restaurant. There was so much food that we all had our favorites - Soup (Chicken Noodle), Appetizers (coleslaw, cranberry salad, liver pate, bread and cheese, coleslaw, cottage cheese), Entree (fried chicken, buttered noodles, mash potatoes, green beans, gravy, stuffing) and Dessert (orange and vanilla ice cream or chocolate ice cream). Let's just say that I sampled most of this list but not all. However, we were definitely stuffed by the time we left. This means that we never did go to try the Reuben Eggrolls. I bet they make their sauerkraut with beer. Those eggrolls just sounded fabulous. It will be on the list if I ever come this way again. Zehnders was our last stop of the day.
After arriving back home around 7:00 p.m., we made ourselves comfortable for awhile until we were ready to play Wii Sports - Bowling, Tennis and Baseball. I wonder what we will do. Oh, it is bowling! Hugh and Kelly play on a bowling league so I thought that this would be amusing. Anyway, I did not do too bad considering that I am a beginner. I won one game out of six but got a lot of spares and strikes along the way. A lot of laughs were had during these games. Kelly and Hugh are now playing tennis and are having a ball. I am leaving them to continue their competition while I hit the pillow. It is almost 11:30 p.m. and my flight leaves tomorrow morning.
I hope everyone has had a great day too!
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