Day 11 - Windsor, ON/Detroit, MI-Oct 6

Sunday morning was windy but temperate as we pulled into Windsor, Ontario which is just across the river from Detroit. We haven’t had a single drop of rain or seen very many clouds this whole trip. That will certainly change when we get home. “When” is the variable here as Hurricane Milton is aiming to hit just as we are supposed to be landing on Thursday. An extended vacation isn’t such a bad thing…

We had the opportunity to tour the ship’s galley areas this morning. It was really interesting but cramped as you might imagine. Meaningful pictures were hard to take. The last photo in the galley section is the crew dining area. There are about 260 crew members who eat in shifts throughout the day and night.

We docked about noon and headed straight for The Henry Ford. The Henry Ford is a history museum complex. It’s like taking multiple Smithsonian museums and placing them under a single roof. The museum collection contains the presidential limousine of John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop, the Rosa Parks bus, and many other historical exhibits. It is the largest indoor–outdoor museum complex in the United States and is visited by over 1.7 million people each year.

The sheer scale of the museum was hard to capture given the very high ceilings and extended sight lines. We spent about 2-1/2 hours there which was not nearly enough time. The most interesting to me were the mathematics exhibit which was a very immersive, tactile exhibit that kids were just loving and the agricultural history exhibit that covered machinery from the horse drawn plow to the most recent combines.

Moving from where we docked in Canada to across the bridge and back was an event. Entering the US, we waited in the bus line for a while before pulling up, disembarking, presenting our passports to an agent and then getting back on the bus. At least when we reentered Canada, 3 border agents boarded the bus and quickly scanned our passports. I sure wish the ship had docked right across the river in the US; we would have saved 3 hours.

When we returned to the ship, there were about 40 crew members lined up outside to greet us with a cold towel and a miniature cosmo.

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