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For the fifth year we watched with our friends the Kansas
City T-Bones play baseball. The year was filled with injuries and players moving up to
affiliated baseball, but everything came together as the season ended. We made the final playoff
spot, and then promptly went 6-1 in the playoffs, finishing with the team's first championship
in the Northern League. Jeanel would have been able
to watch the games played in Gary, Indiana,
but four straight days of rain forced her to not see a single pitch. We listened to the games
on the radio and met the team bus when it arrived back victorious!
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Henry Ford Museum
This is one of those museums you center a trip around. If you are anywhere
near Detroit, Michigan, plan at least a full day around visiting this complex--possibly two. The
museum itself is huge. Of course, the
Automobile in American
Life exhibit is 1/3rd of this museum, but other must see items include
Kennedy's limo,
the bus Rosa Parks sat in,
the Dymaxion house (built in Kansas!),
and
Lincoln's chair. Next door is
Greenfield village which is a 90+ acre complex
containing historic homes, sites, and artifacts from Ford, Eddison, Firestone,
and the Wright brothers. We happened to be there when they had
a car show featuring
over 1,000 1920's-1940's cars--we literally saw traffic jams!!
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We're in the home stretch for 2008! We spent many summer nights watching
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