Wednesday, June 21, 2017, Clio, MI (Frankenmuth)

Day 41

After breakfast I called National RV and the part was in. We pick up the $45 part and it takes me 15 minutes to install. We turn on the a/c and yippee, it works. Raspberries to you General RV and Camping World! After 5 days we finally check out of the fairgrounds (which was actually a very nice place) and drive 40 minutes to Farmington Hills and Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum. More aptly described as an arcade with some antique machines than a museum. An interesting place but not exactly what we were expecting. We headed on for about 50 minutes to Walmart in Clio, MI, where we leave the coach and drive 10 minutes to Frankenmuth. A Bavarian town, this place has tourist trap written all over it.  The main attraction is the Bavarian Inn which features the Amish “broasted chicken” family style dinner. The Inn has a glockenspiel clock which at 6:00, we watched the clock tell the story of the Pied Piper, an awful story about a town breaking its promise and the piper leading the children away “never to be seen again.”  We did manage to find the Frankenmuth Brewery and had dinner-bratwurst and a smoked polish sausage with sauerkraut, sweet peppers, braised brussel sprouts and asparagus washed down with an oatmeal stout. Rosemary had a salad, topped with chicken. On our way out of town, we had to stop at Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland, the world’s largest Christmas store. This place had anything Christmas you could ever want, even a tree ornament stating “Happy Hanukkah” with a picture of a menorah. We hiked the store to help get our 10,000 steps in and took some photos just because we had to. But the bottom line, this was just like the biggest ball of string!