The best part about a bed and breakfast is the breakfast. The breakfast is not always about the food, but the conversation that goes along with the first meal of the day.
I enjoy running a bed and breakfast in Michigan that attracts a wide variety of people. It has been a great week for interesting guests from far away places. We had peeps from Illinois, California, Guatemala, Colombia, Denmark, and Israel.
Yoav and Relly, the people from Israel, told me that they had been traveling the States all week and they finally had a good night of sleep–at my place, the Munro House B&B. Wooo-hooo! Good for us. We pride ourselves in being comfortable.
The Israelis have taken vacations in the U.S.A. and Canada for several years. They have visited the big cities but have a preference for nature. They make it a point to go to places where there is water, farmland, or mountains nearby. Relly told me that on a recent trip with her family, they went to Las Vegas. The kids loved the excitement of the most extreme city in the world, but Relly wanted to take a side trip to the Grand Canyon, just 5 hours away.
She told the kids that they were going to spend a couple of days in the Grand Canyon. They were more excited than usual about doing something that mom wanted to do. She assumed that they knew where they were going–they didn’t. Apparently, the pronounciation of the word “canyon” is the same as the Hebrew word for “shopping mall”. Needless to say, the kids were really surprised when they realized what the word means in English!
Yup, just one tidbit of information shared over a meal that I will surely retell for a long time.
Mike Venturini – Innkeeper
“Life is good in Jonesville”
Very cute story…no shopping malls in the canyon.