Woodward Dream Cruise

MSNBC.COM:  "At least 1

 million people turned out along Detroit’s fabled Woodward Avenue this weekend, hoping to get a glimpse of the estimated 50,000 to 60,000 muscle cars, hot rods and sports cars participating in the annual Woodward Dream Cruise...  the world's largest one-day celebration of car culture..." 

All I have to say in regards to the Dream Cruise is... WOW!!! Jason and I have been hearing about this "Dream Cruise" ever since we moved here.  Like most of you we had no idea what it was or what we were really in for. 

However, last weekend was one of the most exciting weekends/events we've seen in the Detroit area.  Woodward is an 8 lane main road that connects Detroit to its surrounding suburbs including where we are living.

Everything shutsdown for this event, the library, shops,  even the LDS Temple, almost everything located on Woodward is closed and the 16 mile stretch of road becomes one long amazing car show.  

People apparently bring their cars and lawn chairs from all over and either drive 

up and down the avenue or sit and watch the cars all day long.  Jason and I first got a glimpse of how big of a deal this was back over Memorial Day weekend when we first started seeing all the old Muscle Cars gather and drag along

 Woodward on saturday night.  Every Saturday night since than the grouping of cars has only grown larger and this past weekend they hit their max! I couldn't believe all the cars that turned out for this.  Friday night Jason and I decided to "cruise" Woodward and go check it all out.  

What would normally take us about thirty minutes took us almost 3 hours.  The amount of cars out was incredible! Sure there were a lot of people like us who were just driving to check things out, but the majority of the cars were anything from old restored Corvettes to

 brand new Ferraris.  

Saturday was a whole other story. They even shut down some of the surrounding roads so that people could park their cars and you can go and walk around and look at them.  People also lined the street watching all of the cars drive by.  We saw some pretty creative remake cars from movies and some crazy fast cars and some pretty expensive cars too.

It was such a fun and exciting weekend and I'm not even a "car person".