Greenfield Village

While in Michigan waiting to bring Ruby home, one of the host families we stayed with hooked us up with free tickets to Greenfield Village - an 80 acre time machine. Henry Ford trucked in historic homes and restored them all in this village. The employees dress in period attire and the village features restaurants that serve food from that era.

The village is located in Dearborn Michigan, where our Dear Ruby was Born.

You are greeted by an old fashioned steam engine offering rides around the village.

Workers play games from the olden days with the kids.

You can take a ride in an original Model T Ford.

The chili patch outside the restaurant.

Corn cob art.

Shane's Hot Beef Sandwich - a bread bowl full of mashed potatoes, pot roast, and gravy. He couldn't even finish it. That's saying a lot for Shane. He did save room for the bread pudding and vanilla sauce though.

Megan enjoyed an open face pulled-pork sandwich and some awesome mac & cheese.

There were little ads like this all around. It's a pity they stopped making this cocoa that made you live longer. You'd think that would have been a winner.

The Heinz house displayed some bottles from the original 57 varieties of sauces they made.

The Wright brother's bicycle shop had a replica of the original flying machine they built in the back room.

A wall in Thomas Edison's laboratory.

This is the sitting room in the Sarah Jordan Boarding House where a widow housed some of Edison's workers. Notice the 3D glasses on the table. I thought they were pretty cool.