Tuesday, September 24, 2013

FRANKENMUTH - MICHIGAN'S BAVARIAN TOWN

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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