Our vacations in the States

15 décembre 2010

Our vacations in the States

Our vacations in the States

Since our youngest age we liked discovering other regions,cultures and countries.

We visited many Arab countries (Syria and Jordany) with our class in elementary School and than we stayed in France (Paris and Montpellier) with our parents for summer 2002.

But we wanted to test traveling alone to a far country. So we decided to apply to the United States Visa.

In summer 2003,we traveled to the city of Dearborn to visit our aunt's family where we stayed for one month.

It took us 15 hours to arrive to Detroit aeroport,going from Beirut to Amman (Jordany's capital city)then to Chicago and finally Detroit. My aunt was waiting for us with her son and her grandchildren. My cousin drove to Dearborn.

Dearborn is a city in the United state of Michigan. It is located in the Detroit metropolitan area and Wayne County,and it's the tenth largest city in Michigan. The city was the home of Henry Ford and is the world headquarters of the Ford Motors Company.

During our travel,we visited the city and many touristic places around .

In Dearborn, we went to the Henry Ford Museum :

The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, and more formally as the Edison Institute is the largest indoor-outdoor history museum complex in America. Named for its founder, the automobile industrialist Henry Ford, and based on his desire to preserve items of historical significance and portray the Industrial Revolution, famous homes, machinery, exhibits ...

We could discover how Americans lived and worked since the founding of their country, including buildings from the 17th century to the present witch were moved to the property from their original locations and arranged in a "village" setting.

We had the chance to use their transportation system witch provides rides by horse-drawn omnibus, steam locomotive and authentic Ford Model Ts.

Another day, we and our cousins decided to go to Ohio a neighbor state and precisely to cedar point. Everybody were exited because it is the number-one rated amusement park on the planet. It's also the second oldest amusement park in North America.

We spent the day between rollers coasts, thrill rides,water rides where we took a 82 feet ride into the air ,and when the boat drop down it made a big wave of water providing coolness sensation in the summer heat.

But the most frightening experience was the Mean streak roller coaster,after the ride we had a dizzy sensation.

We also went to the Zoo, the Toledo Zoo where we discovered different wild animals.

We also went to Ann arbor city with my cousin's wife (Jihan) to visit her university where she studied architecture. This city is home to the University of Michigan witch explains the 32% of its population. Jihan took us the modern museum of Ann arbor. We saw a special German exposure. Actually it was very weird because all paitings were about dead farmyard animals.

We didn't really appreciate this kind of art and we decided to finish our day in a nice restaurant with our little cousins.

Who visited Detroit without watching a baseball game for the Tigers?

The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan .They have won four World Series championships and have won the American League 10 times.

We were lucky because we were invited to watch one of their games in the VIP section.

Finally another place we visited was Frankenmuth in Saginaw County.

German word "Franken" represents the Province of Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria (in Germany), and the German word "Mut" means courage .

We went to a little farm where we played with little sheeps. We even gave them milk with feeding-bottles.

Also this city made us return to our childhood because we saw Christmas in summer in the World largest Christmas store. We were lost between Christmas lights,trees and accessories.