Day-of-the-Dead in Northville

We were amazed with enormous amount of skeleton displays in Northville. Our favorite was the bank robber in front of Comerica! Apparently the whole town gets in on this and on the first weekend in October they performed Michael Jackson's Thriller for the ribbon cutting ceremony. Good job! This is their second year of skeleton displays and we're sure this tradition will continue. And it's a perfect setting for Day-of-the-Dead photos!

Fort Street Brewery in Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park's Fort Street Brewery is making mucho headway in Michigan's microbrew field. They even claim they're the world's most popular brewery. We do confirm that they are spacious and cozy with a knock out $6 pizza that feeds 2-3 people. We do like their beers, having tried the Burning Leaf Lager Oktoberfest and the Lincoln Lager (which they also mix with lemonade for something light and tasty, reminding us of Europe). The favorite was the hearty Downriver Red Altbier. Pumpkin beers are available for the Halloween party tonight and tomorrow and they are awarding prizes for the best costumes.

Happy Halloween in Royal Oak

If we were to nominate a home for best Halloween decorations, it would have to be the one in Royal Oak on Hampton. It is animated and lit with corpses popping out of caskets, a gigantic spider dropping from a tree, a frightful electrocution, a huge human-like bat creature zooming down from above, a fenced in graveyard, a castle and a guillotine.  Not for small children or the faint of heart, but all in fun, it's totally ghoulish.

Downtown Clawson Trick-or-Treasure

The streets were swarming with the little costumed tykes yesterday for downtown Clawson's annual Trick-or-Treasure.  From noon to 3pm, each business that participated hung out their decorated scarecrow. It was a precious site with crossing guards strategically placed to halt traffic on 14 Mile Road for the goblins and princesses, pirates and ladybugs.