So we took a little tour to Great Lakes Distillery today, the only (legal) distillery in Milwaukee! It was a pretty simple but cool experience. Basically the deal is the tour is free you just have to pay for your cocktails if you choose to have any. They have an awesome selection of everything from rum, gin, whiskey, vodka to even absinthe. Here are a few (crappy) shots from our adventure! Enjoy!
Takin a trip Up North for the weekend and they sky's over Wausau, Wisconsin never looked so good! We were lucky to see an amazing sunset after a crappy drive with rain and dark clouds. Sadly my non iPhone/Droid phone camera did it NO justice.
Since due to a crazy few weeks of work for both Matt & I for the first time ever I think we are not traveling for a holiday weekend but instead are just staying home (though for the record we are Northwoods bound next weekend.) We love breakfast though we don't go out for it all that often but decided today we would hit up one of our favorite breakfast joints, the Lumber Inn in Delafield Wisconsin. Tasty food, quick, priced right and diner style bar... you can't ask for much more!
Yeah, this is the fun stuff we woke up to this morning, REAL fun... especially after we took our first spring hike which was perfect weather last night (more on that to come later...) The joys of living in Wisconsin during the transitional spring/fall months are always interesting!
This is something I have been wanting to do since last summer and this so go to one of the Fish Fry & a Flick movies on Milwaukee's Lakefront at Discover World. It turned out to be really awesome! The fish fry was really yummy (you totally get what you pay for), the Pointskis were going down smooth (and priced right) and the movie was cool with no little kids running around and knocking over your beer. (I love kids but sometimes at some events parents need to leave them home and in the case of this event all of the movies are "grown up" movies.) Also, as a teenager I never did get the chance to watch the Wizard of Oz set to the Dark Side of the Moon so I was really thrilled to finally get to do this too!
This was our awesome view traveling in Wisconsin.... that is until we hit a 1hr snag in Madison. So damn joyful I tell ya!
On our way home from a BBQ with friends we were in the neighborhood of Leon's Frozen Custard, something that is pretty well known in Milwaukee that Matt & I never had. Living in Wisconsin there are MANY frozen custard locations and believe me we have tried our share but never this one, so considering it was like 80 degrees plus w/ humidity last night we swung in for a treat.
Very simple items treat items on the menu and little food but it was good and hit the spot. The only disappointment (in terms of the custard) was that I really wanted to try the homemade plain mint custard but I would have had to buy a pint of it and I really didn't NEED a pint. Also, the place was packed, no where to sit but your car and the crowd was bit too rowdy for even us.
Not saying we would never go back, but it's really not in our neck of the woods and I don't think we would make a special trip back just for it. Never the less, it was good, tasty custard and that helped us beat the heat a bit!
So I've been wanting to go to a farmers market all summer and so far now that its August (ugh) it's my first one! The Delafield one was the closest and most convenient to me so I figured what the hell?? It was cute and small but I found a few things I was looking for (and one I wasn't)!
Oh and the thing I wasn't looking for, some homemade Scandinavian bread, who can pass something like this up?! And it was delish with some eggs and the fresh honey :-)
