Eating out with Granny

I suddenly realized that it was nearly time for Granny to fly home and there was still stuff to do.  So on Saturday I took her to Ann Arbor to eat at Zingermans (see below) and shop at Trader Joe's and the big Barnes and Noble (no substitute for the now-defunct Ann Arbor-born Borders) with two escalators.

 Then, on Sunday, we took her to the Historic (you have to include that) Holly Hotel for brunch.  This was her real birthday meal, to make up for the rather crappy diner pot pie she had then.  The HHH is great but they don't seem to believe in lighting, as you can see:

In case some of you had been trying to reach us since yesterday, we lost the internet and phone AGAIN, only this time because AT&T have actually been trying to improve our service.  When I rang up originally to report the outage that happened in the ice storm, somebody talked me into a "free upgrade" in bandwidth.  I thought this would happen automatically, but on Monday, fresh out of bed in the morning we got a call that a serviceman was coming out to give us a new modem.  Fair enough, we thought, this won't take long.  But oh how wrong we were.  The one guy worked on it and worked on it, and worked on it.  Then left, came back with another modem, then left and came back with a pal and another van.  Then the two of them climbed long ladders and tinkered with wires outside, then before we knew it, it was dark and they promised to come back tomorrow.  Well they did, and again they worked the whole day, and still nothing.  When asked what the problem is, they keep saying "it's complicated."  Apparently so.