Milwaukee Trip

This is way overdue, but I thought I would have my own little posting marathon to recap some of the things we have been busy with over the past few weeks.

Before Myla was born, Kasey and I took a wonderful "Babymoon" trip to Florida to watch some spring training baseball, relax on the beach, and get some much needed rest. With no other vacations planned this year, we decided to take a weekend trip to the exotic destination of Milwaukee!

We drove up on Friday after work and enjoyed stop-and-go traffic from Chicago all the way to Milwaukee. Maybe we shouldn't have picked the same weekend as Summerfest. Kasey was excited to eat dinner on Friday at a diner that she had read about. Unfortunately, the owners decided it would be a good idea to close the place at 6:30. It worked out okay as we had a pretty good meal at another local place that loosely resembled a biker bar. After getting lost in Milwaukee with all of the construction and detours we finally settled into the hotel for the night.

Saturday morning we went to the children's museum where all three of us had a blast. Myla was most interested in the giant wooden Brio train and the dancing game.

Kasey and Myla play in the drive-thru.


Myla shows her dance moves.

Saturday afternoon we went to watch the Brewers play the Mariners. We lucked out by buying three bleacher seats from a bachlorette party for $20 total when the face value of the tickets was $20 each. It was an extremely hot day and our seats were directly in the sun so we spent most of the game just walking around the stadium and finding open seats in the handicap sections. Myla had a blast eating, watching people, watching the game, and singing the songs.

Of course Kasey had Myla decked out in her Red Sox gear.

This was part of the five minutes we spent in the sun before moving to the shade.

We wrapped up the weekend by spending a few hours at the zoo on Sunday morning. If anyone with kids ever goes to Milwaukee, I highly recommend their zoo. Maybe it is just that we are used to our small zoo in South Bend, but Kasey and I were really impressed with the exhibits. Myla loved seeing some new animals like gorillas, bears, giraffes, and elephants.

You could get alarmingly close to this giraffe.



Myla ran away from Kasey to get to the next exhibit.

Kasey took Myla on her first carousel ride. She was hesitant but tolerated it.

It turned out to be a great weekend getaway and the three of us had a great time checking out a new city. If they ever finish their construction, we'll definitely go back!