OT: Christmas store near Ann Arbor - Edit Thank you mongoose0614
mongoose0614 answered for me. Silverbells.
Thank you! I'm sorry I worded the question so poorly mgoboard.
A few years back, my family and I made the trek to see the Michigan/Purdue game. On the way in from the hotel, we stopped by a Christmas store. In the parking lot it had figures of Santa and deer carved out of trees.
I cannot remember its name and have tried to hunt it down, but haven't had any luck. Can someone tell me the name of the store please? We are heading back to see another game this year and would like to stop in.
Thank you!
Which hotel?
That is my guess.
That's what I thought immediately, but Frankenmuth isn't exactly near Ann Arbor - it's up by Saginaw.
Bronners - pronounced Brun-ners.
Br-on-ners
Brun-ners. Technically (Deutsch) the way to pronounce it.
the angelcized spelling? If so, it's definitely pronounced B-ronners.
Brun-ners.
Santa's not real.
He probably just didn't know Santa was real. It's tough being Space Emperor; things slip through the cracks. You can't know all the cult mythology of every planet.
Not sure why you're being so insistent on a incorrect pronunciation, but in German O's are definitely not pronounced like U's. It would be Broh-ners or something along those lines, I'm not exactly the best with phonetic spelling. See: schon, vor, holen, tot, boren, etc.
While I'm certainly not fluent, I've been studying German for many years and I'm currently in Bremen studying. I could throw a rock and hit a native speaker to ask them the exact pronunciation if you'd like.
Lived in saginaw my whole life (10 miles from Bronners) and it is most definitely pronounced brah-ners, like bratwurst.
/localled
My great uncle founded it.
/family'd
My 4th cousin is Bing Crosby who basically IS Christmas. /family'd x 2
What is your great uncle's name?
Bro-ners.
Edit: Oops. This was a childish reply to the thread above me. Not just a thing I'd say normally.
more like it.
See, I was wrong...and Santa is real.
Canterbury village. That would make more sense in regards to proximity. Bronners is at least an hour away and a long way from the expressway.
is about an hour from AA as well.
This could be a completely out there guess, but was it perhaps Urquhart's Tree Farm outside of Chelsea? It does have a Christmas gift shop with rather a lot of hand-carved items. Jerusalem Road, which is where this is, is fairly close to I-94, near the "Old US-12 / Jackson Road" exit.
I lived in Muth for 8 years until I moved to AA for college. Allow me to settle this right now. It is pronounced Brah-ners. Say it with your normal Midwest accent which is spoken at a quick pace and you'll understand.
#getoffmylawm
They have that stuff.
I believe you're looking for Silver Bells in Dundee, MI.
Silverbells is correct. Dundee by hotel district and for the clincher..........
Thank you! I greatly appreciate it! We found it totally by accident, stopping in at the Mc D's next to it and saw those statues. It was a really cool store.
Thank you again!
you're welcome.
I'm from right down the road and didn't even think of that. Kudos sir.
Starting a thread about Bronner's or being an avid Star Trek Convention goer?
That's not even the worst part. We still don't even know if the OP was talking about Bronners. The actual Christmas store in question remains a mystery! Will the board never know the truth?!
There is nothing bad about either my friend.
#lonely
Get you to Bronners, then some chicken downtown and a short drive over to Birch Run.
I always remember the bar behind the Polo outlet (makes it easier).