8/23/2009
Our next stop was the town of Marshall, Michigan – almost every building in town is on the historic registry. We ate dinner at Schultz-approved Schuler’s. The food and service were excellent – and it was reasonably priced. Save room for the grasshopper pie.
We spent the evening doing a self-guided walking tour of the various historic buildings in town. What’s kind of weird is that people live in some of them, so I wonder if they get sick of people walking up and taking pictures of their house while they’re sitting on the porch. The town has two big attractions – The Honolulu House (built in a Hawaiian theme due to its statesman owner’s love of his former assignment there) and a fountain in the middle of town. In the evenings, the fountain is lit up with ever-changing colors. Daniel was mystified by it, so we carried him around it for awhile. I’m glad we found something for him to enjoy.
That night we stayed at the National House Inn – the oldest inn in Michigan. It is a really great bed and breakfast that retains a lot of its 1835 origins. On Sunday nights they have a special where every room is the same price, regardless of the size, so we took the biggest room they had. It had a separate sitting room area where we put Daniel. When we woke up the next morning, I found him under the couch! Somehow he had learned to scoot himself along on his backside. Plus, he was 180 degrees from the direction we had placed him in. He was quite proud of himself. When I found him, he had a big grin on his face. From now on, we’re going to have to tie him down!
The breakfast was very nice – if a little disorganized (everyone was trying to use the one waffle maker at once, for example) – but that was all part of the charm. It was just two ladies trying to do everything in a tiny kitchen. That is part of the fun of bed and breakfasts, we discovered. It’s more like you’re staying in someone’s house than in a formal hotel. But everything was still really top-notch. We’d love to go back there again.
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