Detroit

So - for the past month or so I've been travelling to Detroit for business...well - to Auburn Hills, MI which is probably like 30 minutes north of Detroit so I haven't actually been venturing around the city. (Thank goodness)! I'm a little scared of Detroit...I had to drive through a part of it once when I was going to Canada and I was not the biggest fan.



I see signs for 8 Mile road every time I drive from the airport to Auburn Hills and I'm always a little tempted to exit and drive down it...but I since I have no idea about the city or that street (except that it is where Eminem grew up)..and since I'm a white girl usually driving a fairly nice rental....I decided it's probably not the best idea.



Speaking of nice rentals...my first week in the Detroit area I decided to upgrade my car for the fun of it! :) They had a convertible available and it was definitely fun!! It made me fall in love with convertibles...and if i ever live somewhere where the weather is good enough for one...i would definitely consider making it a purchase! It was awesome.







It was a Spyder Eclipse..in case some of you were wondering. That's one good thing about renting a lot of cars lately...I'm actually learning what some of them are. I had no idea what a Spyder was before. :)



The hotel that I stay at in Michigan is really nice...It's called The Royal Park Hotel and it's a fancy little thing. They even have turn down service where they come and turn down your bed and put a chocolate next to your bed for you. Love it!



Anyway - the first week that I was there they didn't have availability for the whole week so I was going to move over the Marriott or Hilton or something in the middle of the week...but when the day came for me to check out I called down to the front desk to see if anything had opened up..and they said something had and that I could stay....but since I was in one of their only rooms that had a door that could connect to another room they asked if I could move room since a family had resquested to have two connecting rooms. Not really caring, I said sure..



Well - the next day I called down to ask them what room they were giving me...and I guess whatever lady I talked to the day before didn't enter me as staying into their computer....but they eventually worked it out and brought me up my new keys and told me I was on the fourth floor...So I grabbed my bags and headed up and as I was walking down the all...I finally came to my room number! And to my surprise..I was staying in one of their suites..the Kensinton Suite!







This was the big mirror you see when you first was in!!! My suite even had a door bell!!! crazy, eh? I looked it up on their website..and apparently the Kesington is one of their bigger suites at 1500 square feet! um...i think that's bigger than my apt! So - here are a few pictures...



This is a view of the dinning room table and the living room. By the way...I counted all the chairs/seats in the living room/kitchen area...there were 20! I could have had 20 people sit comfortably in my suite! :)



I even had a full size kitchen!!! The only thing i didn't have was an oven..but i had a full fridge, stove, microwave! It was awesome...not that i needed any of it - but still..it was just fun!




This is a view from the living room towards the kitchen...can you believe this place? I didn't know what to do with myself with so much room!!





The fireplace was one of my favorite parts!! I had it on all the time! I loved it! It would start to get hot..and instead of turning off the fireplace I would just turn up the A/C and keep the fire going! :)



The suite also had 2 bathrooms...(1 full and 1 half). The full bathroom had both a shower and a Jacuzzi bath tub (which was awesome!). And my bedroom had another flat screen TV and a HUGE walk in closet!!!

It was so fun!! I only had the suite for 2 nights...but I loved every second of it!! It was fabulous!

I took this picture cause I was talking to Jaime and describing the place and telling her how big it was...and I was in the kitchen and was like "Even the counter in the kitchen is big enough for me to lie down on!".....so I tested it out! :) ha ha...

It was a fun week! I've been back to Detroit many times since....and I haven't been quite as lucky..No more suites - but the regular rooms are very nice as well...and I haven't had a convertible since - but the other rentals have been mostly decent. Although I do miss that convertible Spyder...oh well..maybe another time! :)