Winter Break

This weekend is what our school system unofficially calls "the winter break." It's basically a few days where all the students get off of school and the teachers catch up on work. So this weekend we took the kids down to Detroit for a quick getaway weekend. We went to one of the nice malls and did some shopping, had a nice lunch at Maggiano's, and the kids got to swim at the hotel. Saturday night I took Ben to a Detroit Pistons game, his very first basketball game. Then on Sunday the 4 of us went to the 2011 Detroit Auto Show. Ben and I like to go every year, but this was Megan's first visit to the event, so it was extra special. I'll be honest...there's nothing special (or particularly attractive) about Detroit. But our kids grow up in a small midwestern town of around 20,000, and since Jenny and I grew up in Dallas/Ft. Worth...we want to show our kids from time to time the excitement of a big city. So that's why we go to Detroit a few times a year. Anyway, the temperatures all weekend were no warmer than 10 degrees, so it was brutally cold...but everybody had a fun time.