Tuesday, February 24, 2009

On Our Winter Break . . .


We went to an island with 70 degree temperatures!

And...we left at 10:30a.m. and were home by 1:25p.m.  Curiosity tweaked? (-:  On our second of two days off for "winter break" we headed to the grand, Belle Isle...in Detroit!  A february trip to their Conservatory really can't be beat (and it's free), although, I'm quite certain I would have had a much more languid pace without the "high energy" trio.

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

We had time for sniffin' . . . 

a brief moment for contemplatin' . . . 

a quick sec to humor mom and force out some smiles . . . 

And then we were outta there!  I really think our entire visit lasted about 23 minutes.  I drove the long away around the entire island...since we speant 50 minutes getting downtown...and had a couple of neat discoveries:

First:  The Belle Isle Nature Zoo - No pics but a fun stop (and free too)

Second:  This . . . 

Yep, right on Belle Isle
I learned that the city (with time and money on their hands evidently), built a tripod of old telephone poles and laid dead trees over them.  Then it sent a pipe up through the center to spew water out all winter long.  This is the result (it's huge!).  

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