So what does this have to do with anything? Well, as it turns out, I was able to visit friends from Daejon who were staying in Michigan for the summer, a mere 3 hour drive from where I was staying in Ontario! It was a visit that, shall we say, spiced up my summer =) What a glorious time -- first visiting a couple days with my good friend Mark Reichel (from my Denver days) and then a few days with my friends from Daejon, the Emery's.
Who can go to Frankenmuth without a trip to Bronner's Christmas Wonderland? Nothing like Christmas in June. By the time I left this huge (did I say huge... I meant to say gi-normous) Christmas store, I was ready for the Christmas season! Only 184 more days till the real thing =)
Touring the town was a real treat as well. We visited the oldest and most famous restaurant, Zehnders, which had its start back in 1856 and today serves over 20,000 people a week; that's a lot of chicken dinners!
After visiting the oldest restaurant we took a tour of the oldest church in the neighborhood, Saint Lorenz Evangelical Lutheran Church, which also had its beginnings when the town began in the 1840s. Then, pastor Wilhelm Loehe of Bavaria Germany was inspired to establish a German Lutheran colony by Michigan circuit riders who requested aid in bringing the Gospel of Christ to the Saginaw Valley Chippewa Indians.Who says North America doesn't have history? Well, it doesn't really compare to the thousand year old structures in Europe or Asia but its a good start =)
