It\u2019s official. Allison and I will be welcoming in the New Year here at Campus Martius in style- in about an hour. You may be surprised, but much like New York City, we actually have a \u201cball\u201d of our own here in Detroit \u2013 The D \u2013 and it will drop at 12 tonight. These past few months living in Detroit have gone by quickly and have been filled with many fun adventures – with my Challenge Detroit fellows – and with Allison. This time last year we were living in Grand Rapids and enjoying our life there \u2013 unbeknownst to me of the epic 2015 adventure that was ahead of us here in Detroit.
\nEarlier this evening Allison and I ventured to BD\u2019s Mongolian BBQ (in Dearborn) to claim our final $5 take out bowls from 2015. During my short time making my bowl I \u201cmade friends\u201d with a few folks \u2013 all sharing their weekend plans \u2013 and each one was venturing to Detroit this holiday weekend for various reasons including for tonight’s New Year\u2019s festivities in Campus Martius, tonight’s Wing’s game, and ice skating at the rink in Campus Martius. These past few months have been full and sometimes I begin to forget how blessed Allison and I are to live here in downtown Detroit. We really do live in an area full of action and it\u2019s fun to be able to spontaneously catch a show, skate at Campus Martius, or just take an afternoon stroll around the city to admire the architecture. Anyone that knows me well \u2013 knows my love for architecture \u2013 and I feel inspired by all the beauty around me here in the city.<\/p>\n
Seeing that today was a holiday from Mosher Dolan \u2013 I took a short walk to Bucharest Grill for a Chicken Shawarma for lunch and it was delicious. I you haven\u2019t done so already, get yourself a taste at any of their three Detroit locations. Sadly, earlier today I read that Bucharest is moving out of their Foxtown location and into a new space on Jefferson. I\u2019m sad to see them leave my walkable zone, but I plan to visit them in New Center, Corktown, or at their new location to be opened in 2016 on Jefferson.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t seem right to close out 2016 without saying thank you to all of my friends following my journey, to Challenge Detroit leadership for making our Challenge experience such a special one, for my fellow fellows for teaching me more than I could ever teach them, and for those at Mosher Dolan for making my time there so incredible. <\/strong>Looking forward to sharing many more stories about my life here \u2013 making Detroit home. As I post this post, Allison is bundling up and we are ready to see the D drop in about an hour or so.<\/p>\n Happy New Year!<\/p>\n Dave (and Allison)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s official. Allison and I will be welcoming in the New Year here at Campus Martius in style- in about an hour. You may be surprised, but much like New York City, we actually have a \u201cball\u201d of our own here in Detroit \u2013 The D \u2013 and it will drop at 12 tonight. These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}