We departed Leelanau Monday morning
and made the slow progression home, by way of several stops. Our first stop was Frankenmuth Michigan in Saginaw
County. The architecture in the downtown
area reflects their Bavarian heritage. The
area was settled in 1845 by immigrants from
Bavaria.
STREET ART .... $2500 .... OR A PICTURE IS WORTH $2500!
The downtown area is lined with
shops on both sides and two popular restaurants; Zender’s and the Bavairan
Inn.
BEAUTIFUL STREET SCAPES!
HUSBANDS WAITING IN THE SHADE FOR THEIR SHOPPING WIVES!
BAVARIAN ARCHITECTURE UP AND DOWN THE STREET
BAVARIAN INN & SHOPS
AT THE END OF THIS STREET IS A HUGE SILO!
Apparently the Bavarian Inn was
originally founded by the Zender Family and then they opened a second
restaurant across the street.
The “big
deal” is the all-you-can-eat family style dinners, dating back to mid 1800’s, featuring “famous
fried chicken”. We read the menus and
decided that was way too much food for us!
ZENDER'S
Ended up eating at the Bavarian
Inn where we could order off the luncheon menu.
We had the Frankenmuth Sampler consisting of Schnitzel (which is really
fried pork loin ala Ohio), sauerbraten and the “world famous” fried
chicken. Included were cheese-potato
puffs and sauerkraut. The absolutely
best part of the meal was the beer. In
fact, if it weren’t for the beer, my tongue would still be stuck to the roof of
my mouth. To say the food was
unremarkable is to be kind!
Didn’t take us long to finish up
and we then drove up to Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland, the world’s largest
Christmas store. It was huge and
endless.
The ornament section was mind
boggling! Any and all (legal) special
interests were represented on the Christmas balls. It was fun to walk through and we can now “check
that block”.
It was a short stay but we saw all we came to see. Now we are in Ypsilanti Mi at the Detroit-Greenville RV Park which is about 30 minutes from the Henry Ford Museum ..... which is our next stop!
Life is good in the slow lane!
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