Our last stop on Lake Huron was at Perry Sound, Ontario. Our excursion at this stop was to take a relaxing 3 hour cruise on the Island Queen, it gets its name from sailing through the 30,000 islands in the Georgian Bay.
The Thirty Thousand Islands is the world's largest freshwater archipelago, and are located mainly along the east side of Georgian Bay in Ontario, Canada.
UNESCO designated the area in 2004 as the Georgian Bay Littoral, also known as the Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve.
This map shows the intricate eco system of these islands.
This sweet buddy was sitting in front of us, and had the sweetest personality.
Next we sailed onto Windsor, Ontario which was our first stop on Lake Erie! We sailed into dock in the evening and had beautiful views of the city skyline all lit up against the dark, blue sky.
The next morning we drove to Dearborn to spend the day at the Henry Ford Museum. This was another place we had been before, so most of my pictures of this massive museum of history are from that visit. Click HERE and HERE to see a better overview of the marvelous things in this museum.
This time around, we started with the Modern Glass Gallery, which we didn't visit last time we were there.
This exhibit is a blend of art, science, and technological innovation and embraces the notion of glass as a medium for creative expression, in contrast to its use in industrial production. This exhibition is about how that blend evolved over three generations from pure experimentation to the myriad range of artistic production we know today.
Then my dad headed over to look at the trains while my mom headed over to tour through the Dymaxian House.
The Dymaxion House was developed by inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller to address several perceived shortcomings with existing homebuilding techniques. Fuller designed several versions of the house at different times — all of them factory manufactured kits, assembled on site, intended to be suitable for any site or environment and to use resources efficiently. A key design consideration of the design was ease of shipment and assembly.
As he did when naming many of his inventions, Fuller combined the words dynamic, maximum, and tension to arrive at the term Dymaxion.
Bucky designed a home that was heated and cooled by natural means, that made its own power, was earthquake and storm-proof, and made of permanent, engineered materials that required no periodic painting, reroofing, or other maintenance. You could easily change the floor plan as required - squeezing the bedrooms to make the living room bigger for a party, for instance.
The Dymaxion's round shape minimized heat loss and the amount of materials needed, while bestowing the strength to successfully fend off a 1964 tornado that missed by only a few hundred yards. And the Dymaxion only weighs about 3000 pounds versus the 150 tons of an average home.
Yet despite all these things going for it, the little metal house never caught on. In 1991, this sole Dymaxion House prototype was donated to the Henry Ford Museum
Next, I hit the gift shop. Museum gift shops are one of my favorite kinds of gifts shops, they always have the most interesting and intriguing merchandise. some of my favorite items were...
I think it is so awesome to have dolls made from women from history like Katherine Johnson, she was an amazing person.
By now, my mom and I had a major case of tired museum feet and were ready for a nice little snack and a rest. We headed to the little 1950s snack stand and ordered a malted chocolate shake and a cinnamon sugar donut. It was the perfect little pick me up.
After the museum, we headed back to our ship for dinner. After dinner, my dad and I went walking along the water. There were lots of art sculptures along the path that made our walk interesting, but about half way through our stroll, it started like rain snowing and turned freezing! So we hurried back to the ship to get warm!
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