Milwaukee

The weekend after I submitted my first draft of my thesis, Maggie and I went to Milwaukee (about a two hour drive). It was a pretty spur-of-the-moment trip so the morning of we quickly looked up a few things to do and mapped them out so we wouldn't be zig zagging all over the city.


Our first stop was the Milwaukee Public Market. If it makes you think of the Seattle Public Market, you're not crazy, Milwaukee's is based on Seattle's. It was much smaller than Seattle's and completely enclosed/indoors (slightly different weather in Milwaukee, no?), so it took Maggie and I no time at all to walk from end to end. 



We then walked to a burger place, yum! And continued walking around in the hopes of finding a historic district. No luck. So we carried on to the Milwaukee Museum of Art. The building was designed by a Spanish architect who designed a bridge in Buenos Aires (which I saw while living there) and there's another of his bridges randomly somewhere in Northern California (I can't remember where I was now). There was some really great art and views of Lake Michigan and path that looked like it would be lovely to run on.


A Frank Lloyd Wright chair!






When we got back to the car we drove to the Harley-Davidson museum because there was some deal going on that weekend where you got free admission with a purchase of a museum admission. Did you Harley-Davidson began in Milwaukee? Me neither. It ended up being a really cool museum and I had no idea the history behind the company. At the end we got to sit on some old Harley's! It actually, sort of made me want one, ha!


Being a city known for its beer (their baseball team are the Brewers: hint, hint), we went to the Pabst brewery for dinner. Having drunk these hipster beers in college, it was neat to go to the source. Maggie and I shared a tall boy and some nachos.




Feeling like we hadn't gotten the full beer experience, we went to Lakefront Brewery because it's supposed to be the most popular. I can see why! For as late the evening as it was, we were able to do a tour, you get 4 chips (like wooden poker chips) which are good for "tasting" (they filled the 6 ounce cup), and at the end you get a pint glass with their logo (and a coupon for a free beer) for eight dollars. We made friends with one of the bartenders and once we told him we really only wanted a small taste of a few beers because we had to drive back, he stopped taking the chips. So when we go back (yes, we want to go back), we're gonna have lots of chips to cash in.

Last but not least: frozen custard! I don't believe I've ever had any, but I'm glad we stopped at Leon's Frozen Custard to give it a try. It's a staple in Milwaukee, apparently, and there were tons of people lined up to enjoy some.

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