What a Weekend! (Saturday, Part 1: The Tigers Game)
Our weekend has not yet been boring. Even better, our weekend has been not been boring in a fun way.
Friday was farily typical: softball game at 9:00 (we won!) and then we went to bed.
Saturday was a little more noteworthy. We started with breakfast at the City Limits Diner (of course), then we went home to approximately 16,000 strawberries that the Steenbergens had just bought at the Ann Arbor Farmers' Market. Sam and her mother spent a long time cleaning & de-greening them, then they proceeded to make strawberry jam. Yum!
We had too leave off helping with the strawberries because we were meeting several people from church at 2:30 to go to the Detroit Tigers game. We had seats waaaayyy up high, but right behind home plate (note picture), so we had a good view of the game.
The Tigers didn't look all that stellar, and ended up losing 8-5 (click the picture for a better view of the final line).
I must note at this time that this blog is being censored and lacks true 1st Amendment freedoms. While some bloggers are free to post goofy pictures, other blogs first must meet the censors approval. :-) Here is Sam trying to not get her picture taken, but I managed to sneak a good one. There were several others which I thought the masses might like to see, but didn't get "approval" (they were destroyed on the spot!).
Another interesting item...there is a well-known mural of whales by David Wyland on the Broderick Tower that is a prominent part of the Detroit cityscape visible from Comerica Park (seen here from a picture taken in 2005).
We noticed on our visit to the park that it has been covered by a massive version of the "Can you hear me now?" guy (see pic). At first we speculated that it gets covered with advertising for nationally televised games, but after doing some research it turns out that the Broderick Tower (empty since 1985) is being renovated for commerical space and residential lofts/condos. The ad now permanently covers the mural (though the mural is still under the ad) raising $600,000 for the renovation. I can't say I'm a big fan, although at least the money for the advertisement is (hopefully) going towards downtown revitalization.
2 comments:
You don't "de-green" strawberries. You "hull" them! What would you do without your mother!
I almost called you during the fireworks finale just so you could hear it, but decided not to let you know what you missed:). Maybe next year. Sounds like a fun weekend!
Oh, Detroit, could you stoop any lower??? Egads... I'm all for revitalization, you know, but one would think they could find an abandoned building *without* a mural to further the commercialization of America. Do they still have those in Detroit? Abandoned buildings? Just asking. (end rant)
By the way, there are photos censored on the spot around here too... and the primary reason so many slip there onto the blog is because the main subject reads the blog very infrequently. :) I've shown mercy a couple times. I have a great 40-photo series that *dying* for an audience, but so far I've restrained myself...
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