Ford Stuff

After 3 1/2 years of living in Michigan there are (of course) plenty of things for us to still see and do in our new "neighborhood".  Yesterday we got to check one more thing off of our list.

Yesterday we started the day at the temple.  It was lovely and Mike and I got to enjoy a very nice morning together.

After the temple, we drove to Dearborn (25 or so minutes) to go on the Ford Factory Tour.  We've wanted to go on a vehicle factory tour for a long time and really enjoyed it.  Their were two videos at the beginning (that were pretty interesting) and then a walk around the factory overlooking the in progress work of building trucks.  It was mind boggling how intricate the process is.  It is huge and really neat.  We saw bare bones truck parts and fully-functional-drive-off-the-lot trucks.  They don't allow pictures in the factory, but here is one that Abby snapped of Mike and I in a small gallery at the visitors' center.

 

After we finished the tour the bus took us back to the Ford Museum/Greenfield Village.  We have used our pass to visit the museum a couple times, but had never made it to the village.  It is somewhat reminiscent of Nauvoo or This is the Place, but I believe it is quite a bit bigger.  We were only able to stay for an hour before it closed and we had 3 hot children so we didn't see much, but it certainly got us excited to come back for a full day!