Eversmashing

On this our fourth day of adventuring in our new home (day three was spent at church for Jon's installation -- huzzah!!), today we took Jon's mom & sister with us to the Fredrik Meijer Botanical Gardensin nearby Grand Rapids.  What a treat!

For now, we want to relate the "weird Michigan thing of the day"-- the encouragement of U-turns.  Somehow it seemed that in Wisconsin,they discouraged U-turns as an evil, vile thing that could only resultin chaos.  Here they seem to have the opposite perspective.  Not only are they allowed, but they are favored over the traditional"left-hand-turn-at-an-intersection."  As in, if you are on the westside of an intersection but want to go northbound, you must turn right (southbound) and then make a U-turn at the nearest gap in the median. They even have signs pointing this out.  Very odd indeed.

Rockford review of the day: Arnie's

We went to Arnie's (downtown, near the river) for supper today.  Not onlydid we enjoy good service, but they also had very delicious meals, and-- best of all -- gourmet filled cupcakes, FREE with any sandwich purchase!  I had the raspberry white chocolate one and it was quite divine.  We got our food quickly, but didn't feel rushed, and we were all quite full by the time we left.  All in all, two thumbs up.