Orchids and Another University of Michigan Trip

Today, I am joining the Tablescaper for Seasonal Sundays at http://thetablescaper.blogspot.com/

I am also joining Chari for Sunday Favorites at http://happytodesign.blogspot.com/

This was an old post from 2 years ago. My, how time flies! AJ was so much smaller then and I weighed a lot less, lol.

It's Saturday and comes another double post.

But before we start the trip, let's flaunt our pinks first. Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly at http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/. Please visit her and all her participants. You will be happy to see all the wonderful pinks.
For my contribution, I would like to share more pink flowers on our deck and garden. Here is an orchid that I captured with an insect while I was gardening. I would have taken a closer pic but that little sucker tried to attack me. LOL!
a hanging planter with pink flowers hanging in the gazebo.
Another hanging planter on our porch, a clinbing mandevalia and a pink orchid below it.


And now, it's time to go sightseeing.


We are going to watch a football game in Ann Arbor, MI next week (actually we watched it last Sat. but I loaded these pics last week, sorry if I am confusing you) so I thought I will show you when we watched one a few years ago. You see, you can post old travel pictures on SS also. We drove around the city first and came across this Petting Farm and thought AJ would enjoy it. Here I am on a hay ride with her. We were both a few years younger here. That was fun!


Aren't those little houses cute?

They also had a maize maze. We went in there and had fun looking for each other.

Here is John and AJ feeding the ducks. Aren't those white ducks really cute with all those curly feathers?

Of course, we had to tour the buildings too. John was trying to reminisce his College years and was proudly showing us where he ate and slept and so on.

We attended the pep rally and watched the cheerleaders and dancers practice.

Cheerleaders

Dancers

We also watched the U of M marching band rehearse. John swears they are the best in the country.

And of course we had to follow them.

We followed them all the way to the Big House stadium.

to watch the football game but first, let's watch the marching band perform first.

and now the Wolverines are playing

No wonder they call it the Big House. It holds all these people.

But before we leave, we have to stay behind to watch the U of M Marching Band perform again. Please click the video to watch. I have to admit, they were pretty good.

I hope you enjoyed the tour. Thanks for coming and thanks also, Beverly for Pink Saturday.

Thanks to you all for coming again and thanks to our hostesses for being so gracious in throwing these events. Be sure you go and visit them.