Michigan memories

A year ago, we were Michigan residents in the midst of a month-long visit to New York.
This year, we're New York residents who've just returned from a week of visiting Michigan.

It's a little hard to believe it was only a week -- we packed so much socializing, eating, drinking, laughing and catching up into just a handful of days.

We kicked off our whirlwind social circuit with cocktails at Cafe Felix, only hours after landing at Detroit Metro.






















Then on to Conor O'Neills, and finally the Alley Bar, sending Karl off for his new gig at Duke University.























The next day was a mellow afternoon of hanging out at Ashley's right across from the University of Michigan diag.
































Who knew Rob and Lara were closeted Martha Stewarts, inviting us over to make gingerbread houses? Fortunately for us, there were no points awarded for perfection and instead the emphasis was on laughter and cocktails.



































We spent one evening at Arbor Brewing catching up with John's pals from his Michigan Radio days. Seems everything old is new again, the alpha is the omega, as Christina Shockley, who he worked with on the Todd Mundt Show, now is returning to Michigan Radio and will host a show of her own.


























Even with all this photographic evidence of our pre-holiday excursion, there's a lot we can't show you -- not because it was confiscated by police or because we need to protect the guilty, but we just didn't get pics of every fun thing we did. We got no pictures during a leisurely Zingerman's Roadhouse dinner with Barry and Carrie, and our camera batteries died early at the Earle, before Jeff and Rachel, Lenny and Anne and a few others made it. We didn't get a single picture during the Saginaw leg of our trip ... sort of photo weary, I guess.

Even as jam-packed as our time was, we didn't get to do everything we might've liked. Good thing we'll be back again in the summer.