Take Me Out to The Ballgame

Tonight Bill and Mary Kay took me to a Detroit Tigers baseball game. I usually hate watching sports, but I had a really good time. I had my CATIA class this morning, from 8:00 to 3:00. It's still very easy, and actually pretty fun now that I'm learning tricks and how to create more things. The class is just laid back and comfortable. Back to the game.

I went to Bill and Mary Kay's house in Troy, about 6 miles south of Auburn Hills after my class. Then we left to go to Detroit. My first time in Detroit. I guess you could go ahead and say every steretype you've heard of Detroit is true. It's bad. I don't think I have every been in a metropolitan area that is so racially segregated. Literally, whe you cross 8 mile road from Oakland County ($$) into Wayne (ie poor) it's like crossing a border. The roads go from clean, manicured in Oakland to homeless in Wayne. The buildings, left standing, are abandoned and some even burned shells. There are people hanging around all over the sidewalk. There are old factories just empty. There are 40 story tall buildings abandoned, with no windows. What's even weirder is that there are empty grass lots all over the city, from what I am told is where building used to be and are now torn down. The city of Detroit tears down 1000 buildings/year. It's really a mess. One of the small towns in Detroit actually went bankrupt and the state had to take over fire and police. It's pretty rough.

The ball game was nice though, Detroit lost but the stadium was brand new and you could see the huge GM Renaissance Center which is actually a neat building. The weather was nice and it was refresshing just to be outside.

Once again Bill and Mary Kay showed me a lot. They said they're always happy to show people around, they're very nice. I'm just happy I live and work in the suburbs! It really is like night and day. It's just so weird to have an area with million dollar homes and 20 miles away, have burned out buildings. It's late now, and I have to get up early so goodnight!