Ben Harrison Photography: WEEKEND OFF!!!

DETROIT, MI 08.18.06 - 08.21.06 | As much as we LOVE weddings it is nice to have a weekend off for good times with fam & friends ... where to start ... well, on Saturday my good friend Brendan (this is Ben speaking), my wife and I headed over to "Detroit Rock City" to meet a group of our friends from our church for a Tigers game. One of the guys in our group, Brian, bought tickets for the whole group just out of the kindness of his heart (he's single by the way, for all you single ladies reading the blog ;) We first had a BBQ at one of our friends' childhood home where we had amazing food and even live accordian music, yes you heard right folks, accordian music (her dad played) ... It was "polka-tastic", oh man, so cheesy. After that we went to the Tigers-Rangers game ... the Tigers lost but it was still a good time and they had sweet fireworks at the end (you can see how excited my wife was about the fireworks in the pics below ... its all about the appreciating the little things in life folks:) Post game we went to a chicago style pizza place in greektown and had amazing deep-dish pizza, well it would probably have been more amazing had we not eaten it at 12:30 a.m. (acid reflux anyone?) The next day, Brendan, Laura and I headed out at the crack of dawn to meet our family at Michigan International Speedway for the Gordon Food Service 400 (a nascar race) ... It was definitely what you might call a “cross cultural” experience but it was so much fun. We ended up leaving early because we decided we didn’t want to compete with 250,000 people trying to get out of the “boondocks” … but the race was awesome to see and definitely an adrenaline rush! Well this post is getting really long but after that we headed back to Gull Lake for some boating and fun with the fam … and yada yada yada … we’re home!