Go Brewers!

The real reason we headed to Milwaukee - the Brewers! Jerimiah was very excited to take the kids to a couple of games at Miller Park - we all had a great time! Connor loved watching the sausage races - Connor was rooting for the hot dog - and it won at one of the games. It was fun to see Bernie slide down the slide for Brewer home runs. I loved that they sing "Roll Out the Barrel" after "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" reminding me of my grandpa's love of polka. It was also great to watch baseball while enjoying polish sausages and summer shandy beer. The Brewers won one of the two games we went to, but both games were a fun time for the whole family!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Milwaukee

We had a fantastic family vacation to Milwaukee in June. We started by stopping in Iowa City to visit Aunt Vally. Connor was impressed with the playground, ice cream, and Val's selection of kids' movies. Then we headed up to Milwaukee to enjoy swimming, the zoo, and two museums, according to Connor. We went to the Discovery World science museum and aquarium - the highlight was Connor and I touching a sting ray - "It's soft and squishy!" The zoo was fun getting to see some animals we don't have in Omaha right now - elephants, camels, and kangaroos, but we are so lucky to be able to go the Omaha zoo so much. The other museum was the Milwaukee Public Museum where our favorite part was seeing all the dinosaurs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer Break

Summer break has been a wonderful time so far with trips to the park, library, zoo, baseball games, museums, and to Iowa for father's day. We are loving all the extra time we get to spend together as a family - and the extra sleep, too. My favorite has been the trips to the zoo - we never get bored going there, especially watching Charlotte checking it all out. The new dinosaur exhibit is impressive and a favorite of both kids. Charlotte loves to "roar" at the dinosaurs, bears, tigers and lions - so adorable!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Napa Valley

At last a blog post not about the kids - we enjoyed a trip just the two of us to Napa Valley in June. We had a wonderful, relaxing trip starting with a drive across the Golden Gate bridge then on to Napa. The winery tours and tastings were educational, fun and very tasty. One day we did a Platypus tour to four smaller wineries with a fun group of people. Another day we took the Wine Train for a gourmet lunch and tour of Grgich Hills winery. I just had to chose that tour because of the Grgich connection to Parks & Rec. :) Also, the owner is one of the Napa winemakers who had a wine beat the French wines at a blind world tasting in the 1970s that put Napa Valley on the map. He's now 90 years old and was there the day we visited to chat and sign bottles. Overall, a lot of great wine and fantastic getaway!