Just a few notes about our long weekend in Milwaukee,WI. We chose to go to Milwaukee because we didn’t want to travel that far from home, but we wanted to go somewhere new and where there would be things to do. My dear wife Natalie blogged these comments about our trip:
Johnny and I started out our weekend with a Rustic Anthropology boat cruise on the Milwaukee River. An interesting experience on an old boat with people we didn’t know. It was similar to a boat cruise we took last summer on the Chicago River but this cruise was the calmer more peaceful version. After the cruise we heard a presentation about the history of the river while eating some fine Italian cuisine at Riverfront Pizzeria. I wouldn’t recommend this cruise to people with small children. We had a really nice time.
We also took a morning to go to the Milwaukee Public Museum. Our favorite parts were the IMAX show The Human Body and the Planetarium show CSI: Cosmic Adventure. These shows were very educational and interesting. Johnny really liked the huge round video screen. We also checked out the main part of the museum and the butterfly room was our favorite part. Butterflies were actually crawling out of cocoons and flying around in the room. This would be a great place for kids. They even had a large children’s area close to the butterfly house. http://www.mpm.edu/
We even had time in the evening to check out a cabaret show called the Hula Hoop Sha-Boop. There were only four actors/singers and they sang music from the 50’s. Even though those songs are from before our time we recognized the majority of them from movies and TV shows such as Happy Days, Leave It to Beaver, and Mr. Ed. http://www.milwaukeerep.com/
Finally, we finished our trip by going to the Milwaukee County Zoo. We had a very nice time walking around the zoo looking at all the animals. We even took a trolley tour around the park which was very informative. Our favorite part of the zoo was watching an actual glaucoma surgery performed on a small primate. http://www.milwaukeezoo.org/
If you get a chance to get over to Milwaukee, there are many things to do. We only had time to do a few things and while we were there we were informed that there are many other great things to do. Milwaukee is a great city to visit and it was nice to be a quiet downtown area were you don’t have to pay an arm and a leg for parking. I forgot to mention that the last day of our trip was Johnny’s Birthday so we ended the day with a Surprise Birthday party for Johnny at my parent’s house. We had our family there and some close friends and Johnny was very surprised. He didn’t suspect anything which made it a lot of fun.
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