HONEYMOON...days 1-2.5!

Honeymoon...days 1-2.5!

After Megan and I got married sixteen days ago, we finally got to go on our honeymoon.  We were invited to one of my good friends' Tura's weddings on May 28, 15 days after our wedding, and we decided that we would make two trips out of one, and go to Chicago for our honeymoon.  We left on Saturday at 7:30 from the Boise Airport, but being the workout junkies we are, we were awake at 4:00 a.m. putting in a 40 minutes run.  Oh yeah...and of course, we were packing the night before until 12:15!  A lack of sleep doesn't begin to describe what we were running on!

We landed in Chicago right on time at 2:40.  Of course, between Boise and Chicago, we got to meet some really cool people!  On our first flight, we sat next to this high school kid who was heading down to San Antonio Texas to sell pesticide.  He was a cool guy.  On our second flight from Denver to Omaha, we sat next to a Korean Minister, John Paul.  John Paul was hard to understand, but he had been in ministry for 30 years, and in America for 10.  He had three kids, and he was going to go visit a fellow preaching friend.  We shared some of our jerky with him, and he shared the Word of God with us about Love, Wisdom, and relationships.  As he departed the plane, we gave him some more jerky for his travels.  We moved to the exit row that had two seats.

We landed in Chicago, picked up our rental car (was supposed to be a Ford Expedition, but instead we got a Kia Sorento).  We began the 4+ hour drive from Chicago to Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Of course, I left the GPS car charger at home, went to Taget to buy one, they didn't have an exact one, but one that we thought would work, it worked long enough to get us to Ann Arbor.  On that journey, we drove through, what I can only describe, as akin to the Projects.  It was quite an experience, where we learned that cross walks don't mean anything, because drivers don't stop...and if you do stop, the pedestrians can't figure out what you're doing.  Pedestrians make up their own crosswalks, and out of everyone we saw, only one gal waived to use for stopping so she and her friend could cross.

The GPS finally got us to the toll road...but I wasn't able to find the entrance, so I paralleled it for a while (too long) until we were finally able to get on it.  We drove out of Chicago, into Indiana, and finally hit Michigan.  We saw multiple different police cars (they have a bunch of different ones up here!), and didn't get pulled over.  We ended up in Ypsilanti, Michigan where we stayed for Saturday - Monday morning.  We arrived at 9:15 p.m. local time (7:15 MST), which made for a 17 hour day of travel.  We went out that night to Sidetracks Bar/Grill...That was some good coleslaw burger I had, with sweet potato fries.  Everything on the menu looked really good, so I told Bryan, our waiter, to order me something!

On Sunday, we were up early, went to Church, and then we drove into Ypsilanti for some Jimmy Johns.  We saw a really cool fire house, and some other really cool buildings. We drove back to the hotel, did some research on the GPS, determined that the power cord we had purchased at Target was crap, and that we needed to get one from Best Buy that was made for the Garmins (different power outputs).  We left for Tura and Justin's wedding, stopped at Walgreens to get a card, and right next to Walgreens was Kluck's!  It was a drive-in, that looked like it had greesey food...but it was named KLUCKS!  You're darn right we're going to go get a picture of that!

We went to Tura and Justin's wedding, had a couple of slow dances (we were called out on the generation dance by 15 days...Tura did the math.  But we weren't the FIRSt couple...nor were we the SECOND couple!  We were the THIRD couple that were called out!)  We had fun, and then took off.  We went to Best Buy, purchased the CORRECT GPS car charger, and found a Joe's Crab Shack to eat dinner at.  We got back to the hotel room, and crashed.

Day three started with my alarm (on the computer) waking us up.  I groggily killed it, and went back to sleep.  We woke back up at 9:45.  We decided we ought to work out this morning, so we went running for about 35 minutes...it was HOT!  That is all for now!  I will post pictures later...but we are off to Frankenmuth, MI (Bavarian town USA!!!! Where it's Christmas YEAR ROUND!).  Here we go!  Day three of the adventure...BEGINS!