Spring Break - Day 10

Our last day of spring break was bittersweet.  The weather was fantastic - 84 and sunny - the only nice day of the whole break!  We sure took advantage of it!  After church, we drove down to Belle Isle (a beautiful island park in Detroit).



Picnic lunch by the Detroit skyline.





Girls outside the Great Lakes ship museum.



(funny side note...Katie has learned about Commodore Perry -named on these cannons- in her school social studies work on Michigan history.  She remembers him mostly because he has the same last name as Katy Perry, her favorite singer!)

(another funny side note - after talking about Katy Perry, Katie said she'd like to invite her to dinner sometime.  Megan said she'd want to invite Kesha to dinner.  Jessica said, "but where would I sit??", very distraught!  We thought she'd pipe in with Pink or someone else, but she was worried about not having enough room at our kitchen table!  Ha ha!)



Megan and Katie inside the museum, where a real ship cabin
looks out over the Detroit River.  It was fun to watch the
freighters go by right outside this window, and pretend
to steer the ship!



Girls in the Belle Isle Conservatory, always my favorite place.

Feeding the albino deer at the Belle Isle Nature Zoo.



After a long, fun day on Belle Isle, we headed home and prepped our bikes for our first bike ride of the year.  Can you guess where we went?  DQ, of course!!  :)

What a nice staycation we had for Spring Break 2011!