Vacation Day Five

Monday morning (our anniversary!) we had ordered breakfast from the hotel's menu. It was a bit pricey, but once we saw how much food came, we were ok with it.



The falls were lovely in the morning as well.



But we had places to go... So after we ate we packed up, checked out, headed down the road. We drove across Ontario, coming back into the US at Sarnia. Once again, a little bit of a back-up at the border. Not quite as long in this direction. The customs officer was not too hostile. He was a little suspicious of why we would be going to Kalamazoo, but he let us go without a problem.

Somewhere along the line on our trip out I'd seen a sign for Frankenmuth. I'd remembered they have this awesome fudge so we decided to make a side trip to "Little Bavaria" before heading to Kalamazoo and our hotel. We parked behind the fudge kitchen (yum) and went to the Bavarian Inn for lunch. I had chicken, Adam had sausage. Once again we were a little wary of the price until we saw how much food we got. Bread, soup, pasta salad, cucumber salad, coleslaw, cranberry sauce, and ice cream. Wow. I took some of mine to eat for lunch the next day (but then forgot it in the car so I had to throw it out. Boo.) After lunch we stopped at a few shops on the way to the fudge place. Did I mention we got fudge? It was buy three, get one free. So we got four. I haven't eaten any of it yet, but I'm going to cut some off when I'm done with all these recap posts.

After we got our fudge we left Frankenmuth and drove another two plus hours to our hotel in Kalamazoo. After sunny, hot weather for our entire trip it started to rain about ten minutes before we got to the hotel. The parking ramp was across the street and we walked over via a skywalk. We checked in and unloaded. We had a jacuzzi suite with a kitchenette (we decided to splurge for one night.)

We originally made reservations at the steakhouse in the hotel, but when we got there and found there was pretty much nothing on the menu I'd want, we cancelled those and went to the bar & grill downstairs instead. I had chicken chili (spicy!) and a baked potato. Adam had prime rib. Yes, prime rib at a bar. And I'm told it was pretty good. A large group of loud youngins was seated next to us partway through our meal. They were semi-obnoxious. Luckily we finished soon after they ordered their food. We stopped at the coffee shop on the way back up to our room for a smoothie and shot glass.

We put the smoothies on ice and filled up the jacuzzi, ready to relax. But when we pushed the button nothing happened. Adam called down to the front desk and they said they'd send engineering up. Luckily there was enough time between the call and the guy showing up that neither of us were caught...uhm...unclothed. The maintenance guy was very nice. He tried the breaker, took the circuit board out, replaced it, but no luck. It was broken. And due to a conference (AMEC? Some relgious group) they were totally booked up. So, no jacuzzi, but we got a credit on our account that pretty much covered our dinner. They handled the problem very well, I think. So, with the relaxing soak cancelled, we watched some tv and called it a night.