Day 5 - Kalamazoo to Monroe - 200 mi

  Monroe, Michigan, United States
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Its Wed morning and we are in Monroe Michigan.  We traveled from Kalamazoo to Detroit yesterday for the Cardinals vs. Tigers at Comerica Park and after the game drove 40 miles to Monroe Michigan for the night.

The day started out kind of late.  We drove from Kalamazoo to

Michigan Stadium

Ann Arbor where we stopped to see the University of Michigan.

More views

The stadium was under construction but we got to drive thru and it seems huge.  We drove thru the village, it is really cute and the school is very large, but we didn't get thru the whole campus.

We stopped at lunch at

Zingerman's Deli

Zingerman's Deli.

Zingerman's crazy menu

It was featured in

At Zingernams

Esquire as having one of the best sandwiches in america and

Boys

was also one of the five featured on Oprah.

Pastrami

It is so cute, over 100

Macaroni

kinds of specialty sandwiches.  Bryan got the famous

Best Sandwich in USA

bbq beef brisket which was the featured sandwich. It was excellent.  We also had a

Mufaleo

Muffalato, macaroni and cheese and a Pastrami.  Very fun place.

We stopped and got gas - $4.05,

Gas - $4.05

down a little from Chicago.

Uniroyal Tire

Then onto Detroit

Detroit Skyline

for the

Comerica

game

GM building

.  The parking was so close and the

Ford Field

stadium

Ford Field Again

beautiful.

Outside comerica

It is a very large

Tigers

field but the

Tiger Sign

seats are so nice.  It has a very wide concourse and the bleachers where we sat were hardly bleachers.  They had seat backs and

Scoreboard

tons of leg room.  The seats are angled low and wide back so great views from everywhere.

From our seats

We got there early enough to see batting practice.

Cardinals

Pujols was hurt but we got to see all of the

Larusa

Tigers stars, Pudge, Cabrerra, Ordonez.  The fans were so laid back and having a great time.  It was a great experience

68 World Champions

and so different from Wrigley. 

It was 68 world series night and all of the

Lit up

guys from the 1968 world series were there including Al Kaline, it was very neat.  The stadium was packed.  The Cardinals won but we did see home runs by Sheffield our old Yankee friend, Pudge and Cabrerra. 

Kids and statue

Great times, great stadium.

We then drove on to our hotel in Monroe, MI.  Easy morning this morning doing laundry and swimming.  Now we are now back to Cleveland for SF and Indians.  Hopefully the rain holds out.