Thur. - Sat. June 25-27,2014- Milwaukee

Scott and Colette left for work early this morning but we stayed and worked at their house this AM and Mike went to Best Buy to get a new laptop - his is on it's way out and will not consistently accept a charge.  We left about noon and started our 250 mile drive out of Michigan through Indiana

and Chicago to Sussex, WI, a suburb of Milwaukee where we stayed with Nancy and Joe for three nights. Nancy and Mike worked together while interns together at Touché Ross in Chicago while still in college.   The last time we we visited her was in the summer of 2001 when we were on our 2nd road trip in Chatty with the boys - the year we drove to Michigan and visited the remaining lower 48 states.  Thursday night we had a get reacquainted visit with Nancy and dinner out at The Copper Dock.

Friday we all had a work at home day until dinner time when we went to a

 good old-fashioned Friday night fish fry at The 5 O'clock club

followed by a visit to another restaurant/ bar where Nancy and Joe introduced us to our first Summer Shandy - a local seasonal beer

 

Saturday they took us on a driving tour of Milwaukee

- first stop -  Nancy's downtown office at E and Y,

 

then to Burkes Tavern - the Irish Bar Joe owned with his brother for 30 years until he sold it in 2012.

Burke's provides a shuttle bus to Miller Stadium where we watched the Brewers neat the Colorado Rockies on a beautiful day for baseball.

 

 

 

We enjoyed the local baseball tradition of watching the hot dog race in the 5th inning, 

and enjoyed the ball park itself with it's sponsorship from local businesses Harley Davidson and Miller Brewing

then left after the game ended to join the others waiting for the shuttle bus back to the bar they arrived from

 which in our case was Burke's

where we had another Summer Shandy,  and got some food to go

served by Nancy's daughter  Jesse.

We returned to Nancy and Joe's house, had our take-out dinner and crashed early since Joe and Nancy are catching an airplane out of town very early in the AM.  It was a great day and a really enjoyable three day visit.