Michigan Central Station, Detroit and Back to Work Tomorrow!

This weekend, we went to the Detroit Free Press Marathon to watch our youngest daughter run her first marathon.  Hannah finished in under 4 hours.  YEAH!  Rachel and Kyle were there also and we all had a great time cheering Hannah on during the race and being together.  The men's winner was Zachary Ornelas, a U of Michigan distance runner, in the time of 2:20.13 ... a local Ann Arbor runner!  It was a good story about a 22 year old that had to get up on Monday because he is doing his student teaching in the Detroit Public School system.

http://www.freep.com/article/20131020/SPORTS23/310200128/Detroit-Free-Press-Talmer-Marathon-men-winner

While in Detroit we saw the often reported urban decay.  It is hard to see how Detroit will ever recover from being thrown under the bus by the car industry and the exodus to the suburbs.  Often sited as the example of urban decay is the 18-story Michigan Central Train Station, the tallest train station in the world, built in 1913 and shut down in 1988.  Owned by local billionaire Matty Moroun.  ... a beautiful building!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Central_Station

Sue Neal and I stopped by in Ohio to check on my Dad.

Tomorrow is AP Biology day.  We will wrap up our Mitosis and Meiosis Lab,  go over our Chapter Questions and start on our Genetic problems.  Computer programming will be checking their EZ problems and solutions before starting on some challenging programming problems.

I saw two Monarchs this evening ... they better be on the move south ... first frost later this week.