Visiting the Newlyweds
Detroit Metro to Midway is such a quick flight that the flight attendants barely have enough time to serve and collect the complimentary beverages. I left one adventure and began another before I had time to finish my Coke. The newlyweds met me at the bottom of the escalator and enveloped me in hugs. Did I mind going to the mall so that they could return some duplicate wedding gifts and spend some of the cash and gift cards they'd received? Not at all... so off we went to Crate and Barrel and Pottery Barn, where pillows were selected and tested before they took me to their new home. They are delightfully house-proud. The prior owners were full of loud parties and drunken teens. The neighbors are delighted to have the kids instead. Fall in the Midwest is much more colorful than that which arrives in the desert Southwest. These trees and bushes were at the end of the parking lot at Garden Ridge...... which was not the garden su...