Milwaukee

We're in Milwaukee for our 4th annual Take the Kids to A New City and State Tour. These trips usually involve a hotel with a pool, a Major League Baseball game (if applicable) and a cool eatery found on the Food Network. We went to Louisville, KY in '08, Pensacola, FL in '09 (we didn't attend Minor League games in those cities because their respective teams, the AAA Bats and AA Pelicans were out of town).We did see the Reds at the Cards in St. Louis last year and this afternoon we saw the Pirates at Brewers. The game was lame. The stadium 'aight- it was too stuffy and the fact it was Craig Counsell bobblehead day meant it was packed. I tried to give back one of the 3 bobbleheads we received from the woman who gave it to me at the gate and she seemed shocked. I'm a baseball fan and even I only kind of heard of him. I definitely don't need three of his bobbleheads in the house. I'll take 3 Mark Buerhle bobbleheads but there's no way in hell our chronically late foursome would ever get to the Cell on time for that.

I decided I was going to eat Wisconsony and from the concession stand I ordered a brat, a Polish and a hot dog. I couldn't tell the difference between a brat and a Polish having only had one or two of either of them in my life. I decided whichever was which I didn't want the paler whitish one. However, I also felt bad to have to pass it to Dee so I kept it and gave her the reddish more leathery looking one that I wanted. I gave the hot dog to Jack who couldn't bring himself to bite it because of the black "gross" grill marks on it.

The game was aight as Dee and I agreed we shouldn't have forced the kids to sit in the car for 2.5 hours and expect them to sit in seats at a baseball game. They were too restless. Jack kicking the 32 oz. Diet Pepsi down the seat of the woman in front of us didn't help matters.

Later we swam in the cloudy pool and ordered room service.

Monday was redemption day as we went to the Milwaukee Co. Zoo. We saw all the favorites; lions, tigers (that were actually awake), elephants, penguins.

We all took a camel ride and saw a sea lion show. We even bought a painting on canvas painted by a sea lion named Slick. Nice two days.