ALASTAIR + LALEINIA

During our first year, we didn't spend too much time in Detroit. Alastair actually became a citizen there! So we have decided to spend more time there, especially driving around the neighborhoods with the dilapidated houses. I don't have too many interesting stories about our drives or our adventures, but here are some pictures to show what we had seen. The wonderful thing is that there's a bit of a revival downtown, which makes us happy! We've loved Michigan and are so happy that Michiganders are out there caring for their city!

Grandma and Grandad came to visit, so we wanted to show them a good time! Problem was, the weather in Ann Arbor was horrible the whole time they were here, so there wasn't much to do. Winter seemed like it just wanted to stay and didn't truly go away until mid May. I mean, it never really leaves. Right after picking them up from the airport, we got online to see what the weather would be like over the weekend in a large radius around our place. Just about everywhere was expected to be miserable - except Mackinac Island! It was supposed to be chilly but sunny, so no sooner than we'd arrived back from the airport, we were bundling in the car and heading up to Northern Michigan! As it was Laleinia's birthday (28 - never looked better) we stopped at Ulta on the way, and also stopped for food here and there. It took us quite a while before we finally pulled into our hotel in Mackinaw City. We were running on fumes, since I (Alastair) thought we'd make it to ou

Emre loves coming to visit the Google office. I'm not sure if it is actually because of the office itself or if it is because he gets to spend time with Daddy, so I'll just say it is a bit of both.  Well, for a long time he was getting excited for our "Take your child to work day" where he would spend will morning with me at the office, playing games, doing activities, etc. Just about every day for a few weeks leading up to it he would ask if we were going to Google. Finally, Emre woke up on the day, sat up in his bed, and said "are we ready?" It was so cute.  We took the bus to the office, as Emre loves taking the bus, and when we got there Emre got his own Google Ann Arbor shirt. We wanted around, got a balloon animal, got Emre's arm painted with a cool shark (he didn't want his face painted). I had some stuff to get done so Emre spent some time watching Moana but then we ended up doing more activities and even did a little yoga clas