Fri. May 20, 2014 - Where is St. Clair ( Shores)?

This morning we said goodbye to Cousin Linda and husband Paul.  We left them with the redwood flower vase given to me by Mom T in 2008 which she purchased when she took a road trip with friends to see the redwood groves in northern CA.  Paul had been talking about really wanting to see the redwoods, and when I showed him the vase we used as a centerpiece yesterday, he smelled it and caressed it, so I knew the vase had found a new home with some of Mom's family in Michigan.

Next stop - the library of course - this time Grace A Dow Memorial Library.  Midland is a Dow town.

One of Linda's daughters works there - the plant is huge.  They built a minor league baseball park on the grounds in town. 

 

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The library had this stained glass in the window ( notice Chatty sitting out in the parking lot in both pictures). We worked all day there with a break for lunch

Then drove on to our next adventure.  We stopped at a Michigan rest area to admire how green it is here ( I'm continually amazed at how much grass they choose to mow)

then discovered that our Thousand Trails destination in St. Clair Shores in the northern Detroit area was actually in St. Clair, MI - about 40 miles north almost to Port Huron.  It took us a while to get our heads around this minor but disruptive oversight on our part.  We drove an hour longer than we needed to had we gone directly to the park from Midland, but no worries - we found a nice spot in a nice park and got settled in for a five day hook-up camping spot.

we found a nice spot in a nice park and got settled in for a five day hook-up.