Port Huron, Michigan - A Walk Through Our City

What was I to do with six children and a busted van? My original plan was to sit at home and feel sorry for, well me mostly, as it was Memorial weekend and everyone was doing cool things with cool people and I was stuck at home. Then I realized that the videos had to go back... this how our trip started.

Everyone knows that Memorial Day many of the stores are closed and the federal buildings are locked up tight so I didn't think there would be anything that we would be able to walk to and do, boy was I wrong! We started doing a simple chore and turned it into a fun journey. I loaded the four toddlers into the two double strollers and with Dad on one and me on the other we went off with my two other little ducks following in a row. I wasn't really thinking of how far away it really was because I could imagine the drive in my head. It was down the street, then over one little bridge, then to the light, right there at 10th and Lapeer sat our Family Video that just opened up.

That walk turned out so much more than that little picture of a map in my head. As we were walking we were able to look at the history that is Port Huron. The old style houses spoke to us, some kept as big 5 bedroom houses with big yards and gardens, some turned into apartments with barely enough parking for two cars. The columns that were painted pinks and blues and greens to show depth, and some that have been worn and weathered over time to a flaked old white and grey. I could only imagine how many families have lived in some of them, and how the same family has passed other houses on to kin generation after generation.