We went to visit Sue's mom for Thanksgiving. We flew into the Toledo airport, and they had this ancient TDD device for hotel information or something like that. It has one of those old Speak-and-Spell displays, and made assorted beeps whenever you hit any button.



One morning, we went to this little diner called Weber's (on their sign, it said: "Good Food. Mediocre Service."), and I ordered the item called "Big Vic's", which is basically a cookie sheet full of breakfast food. It has two eggs, two pieces of bacon, two links of sausage, a biscuit+gravy, a pancake, two pieces of french toast, a potato pancake, and two pieces of regular toast. Their coffee was darned close to water.



We drove up to the Detroit area that day where one of Sue's aunts lives. We visited some big ol' mansion that was once owned by the Dodge family (Dodge as in "does that thing have a hemi?") and was decked out in all sorts of holiday decorations. I only got a few half-way interesting pictures.



The first is a small closet that is the "Wrapping Closet". There's a small work surface, and a roll of wrapping paper on the wall. The only purpose of that closet is to wrap presents. I just found it interesting that they had enough presents to justify dedicating part of the house full-time for wrapping.

The next picture is a Tiffany lamp over an old player piano (well an organ really). The player piano had all sorts of rolls of music that look like super-long punch cards. Anytime I see these lamps with all of the fruit, it reminds me of a house that one of my dad's uncles used to live in.

The last picture was a platter of antique booze bottles (with the original contents still intact). Most of them were "South Africa" brand, and it was in a really beautiful sun room.