Some of the highlights from my recent trip to Detroit

Now that I have recouped from my busy 3 days in Detroit I wanted to share with you all some of the highlights from my trip. I believe there were 22 bloggers from Canada and then 147 from all across the world there with Ford. I had not been on a plane in many years so it was an experience right from the first moment. 


I am so thankful for this experience. The knowledge of not only cars and Ford but the work that is behind the scenes and plans for the future was amazing. Technology has really come a long way. So amazing! There are a few parts of my trip I will go into more detail about later. But for now here is a teaser. 

The following pictures were taken inside the  Henry Ford Museum’s Driving Americas Exhibit that was not yet open to the public

This museum is home to many important vehicles in history like the bus that Rosa Parks rode on, and the Kennedy presidential limo 

I didn’t realize I took so many pictures. I am going to be spreading these out a bit on twitter and Facebook as well. That evening we also had a wonderful buffet style dinner, cocktails and listened to the first of many great speakers.


Next day we were up bright and early 5AM I however had room key issues and could not get back into my rooom after stepping out for a second. Needing into my room because my purse and passport were in there I missed the first couple of buses and breakfast. Luckily I was on the last bus with four others and we made our way to COBO Center where there was another breakfast for us who missed it. We then all attended the Ford Press conference and saw the unveiling of the 2013 Ford Fusion then attended the North American International Auto Show, Amazing!

I was loving the bright colours, classic cars and even muscle cars. I am not what I would call a car girl, but I do like when an automobile looks great. as a mom I like comfort, space and safety.

We had some down time then off to dinner. The food was great.

I need to tell you a funny thing about dinner that night. we had a cocktail hour before and there was veggies, cheese, crackers and some other stuff. The buffet ran out of plates and the men who were car guys, design bloggers etc started putting food on their hands and napkins. The “mommy blogger” was the only one to think about getting more plates. It was a blast. That night my feet hurt. I called home and had an early night.  The next day we were busy at workshops and pretty much hands on. Cameras were not allowed in many areas so I did not take any pics. After lunch we had the last of the speakers talk. Then a bus ride to the airport. 8 of us Canadians were on the same flight home to Canada. It was a quiet flight as we were all very tired. 


|If you want to see what the others were saying check out the #FordNAIAS tag on twitter


more pics to come