Today we picked up husband’s uncle and  headed down to Detroit to wander the North American Auto Show.  We haven’t been in years.  After driving around looking for parking we finally parked along the waterfront in a ramp next door to General Motors’ Headquarters.  We were about 4 long blocks away from Cobo Hall which housed the auto show.  It was windy.  And really cold.  But whatever.  We zipped up our jackets and headed out.  About a block into our trek we noticed lots of people walking toward us.  Not surprising, it was already 2:30 in the afternoon, people would likely be finished with the show and heading back to their cars.  Then a young man asked us if we were going to the Auto Show.  Husband and I ignored him, figuring he wanted to sell us something.  Uncle responded yes we were.  “Well don’t bother walking all the way down there, it’s closed because there’s a fire.”  Really.  The next guy coming toward us is on his phone saying something about “it won’t open back up till 4:30, lots of smoke.”  Great.

We turned around and spent an hour or so wandering around the Renaissance Center, world headquarters to General Motors.  They had their own mini auto show in their lobby, with all of the vehicles they make displayed.  That was fun.    The picture at the top is just inside the front door looking up through the glass and out at the city.

Then we decided to take the People Mover around town and over to Greektown for something to eat.  And to waste some more time until we could attempt to get into the auto show.  We ate at a Greek restaurant of course, they had lamb, I had spinach pie and vegetables.  Yum!  We didn’t do much walking around as the wind was whistling and it was just so cold.    At 5 we took the People Mover back around to Cobo Hall and found ourselves in the midst of thousands of people milling around.  The doors to the show weren’t open yet, even at 5:30.

So we decided to head back home.  We’re going to get up early tomorrow, pick the uncle back up and head down to try again.  Maybe it will work out.  Maybe it will be another day of adventure.  Just never know.