Here is the link to the video I shot for the Detroit Free Press from interviews with workers and the President of the hotel, Dan Musser, to works painting, cleaning and getting things ready for the 1,000's that will come over the next several months.

http://tinyurl.com/TheGrandHotel

I grew up in Detroit but never set foot on Mackinac Island or The Grand Hotel until last week. What was I thinking to never have gone?? Really missed out on some other kinds of fun experiences when I was a kid. Now that I have two of my own, planning a trip back up soon.

I spent the day at The Grand Hotel shooting a video feature of employees getting the hotel ready from gardening to last minute decorating and adding 225 gallons of paint to the outside of the building and on "world's longest porch."

It's expensive but I have to treat myself and the family at least once, plus Mother's Day is coming up :-)

http://tinyurl.com/TheGrandHotel