Frankenmuth

If you have never visited the beautiful little village of Frankenmuth, Michigan you need to. What a fun place to be for Christmas. We took most of the day on the 23rd to travel there because of the ridiculous and christmasy weather but we made it. We stayed at the Drury Inn and Suites. On the 24th, we did some shopping and visited Santa at the Bronner's Christmas store. We loved it there....such a magical feeling there. The kids each picked out a Christmas ornament, Mom got some Haribo candy which I love and Dad bought some new trees for his Christmas village. We spent that evening at Aunt Jeannie's home in Saginaw. It was fun to be with his family. We had a white elephant gift exchange and watched a video Paige had made for her parents. It was touching. Jerry's Grandma is not in good health but I think enjoyed being with all her children. On Christmas day we went to Grandma North's for breakfast and enjoyed all the family there. Jerry's Dad has 7 siblings so with all their kids it was quite the party. We enjoyed an awesome German style meal at the Bavarian Inn with another visit from Santa. Uncle Rich and Aunt Diane came with their kids and met as there as well. The food was really, really good. Did I mention the food was good? We enjoyed ourselves. Merry Christmas! The next day we packed and Jerry spent a little time picking up some of his favorites....superman ice cream, kogel's hot dogs, coney sauce and frankenmuth fudge. We headed back to Michigan and packed up all our stuff. We decided to drive to Detroit that night because we were flying out the next day early. Our hotel in Detroit was really nice. Unfortunately we left Lauren's raggedy old baby there. She was sad but hopefully will forget and latch on to her new one. The kids traveled well and we made it safely back to Las Vegas. Andy was kind enough to pick us up. We ate at Baja Fresh and headed home. We were so, so glad to be home.