If I could live anywhere in the world, I wouldn't live anywhere super extravagant, or too far away. I
would live about two and a half hours away from here in my small hometown in Michigan.
I remember I lived in the cutest pale pink house. Not too loud, but not too subtle either. In the
summer time I would ride my little cotton candy pink and sky blue bike around the block all the
time. Sometimes just for fun and sometimes to go to my favorite ice cream parlor called the Whistle
Stop. Not only did they have Superman, my favorite ice cream flavor. They also had my favorite
dessert, Bumpy Cake. For those of you who don't know what bumpy cake is, it is a chocolate
cake topped with bumps of sweet vanilla cream and topped with milk chocolate ganache. The
people who worked there were awsome people. They gave me free samples of only their best
desserts all the time. The malls in Michigan weren't on every corner, like they are here in Florida.
It took a good thirty minutes. So every time I found out we were going I got so excited, because we
only went every once in a while. In the sommerset mall they had my favorite resturaunt california
pizza kitchen and my favorite stores at the time. Those stores being Club Libby |Lu and Henri
Bendel. At the Royal Oak mall they had a Neiman Marcus store and that isn't what I liked about it, I
liked the Neiman Marcus Cafe right above it. The popovers were my favorite and so was their iced
tea, to die for. But all of there food was amazing. If you were a kid, they'd give you a cookie card,
everytime you came after your meal they would give you a free cookie and punch your card for some
thing even better. My brother and I would always fight over who had the most puches. If either one
of forgot our cards, we'd boast to the person the whole day that we had they card and they
didn't. Another thing I loved about Michigan is that there were actually neighborhoods, not
subdivisons. But all the houses were built on the road. It feels more like home to me when
I pull into the house from a road, not a gate. I loved that everyone knew everyone in the
neighborhood. Around halloween, we'd even put goodies on eachothers door. Not only did we
know out direct neighbors, but we also knew the next neighbors over and the people behind us,
even people a block over. If my mom ever was unable to pick me up from the bus stop there
were three people's house I could walk to and wait for my mom to pick me up. I felt so
secure in my enviorment. The bus would sometimes drop me off right at my door, she was so nice,
she even brought me goodies for the holidays. Not only do I love the cherry bushes ans snow
that Michigan has to offer the people and the enviorment were also a huge contributor.
