Work Trip to Milwaukee

Wow, a lot has happened in the Twin Cities since my last post and it isn't very hopeful, so I'll stick to last week's work trip to Milwaukee! I very rarely go on work trips; plus, for this one, Patrick tagged along while Beatrix and Ximena stayed home to (wo)man the fort (another thing that almost never happens), so it was notable.


We got a late start to Milwaukee because we wanted to wait until the student march to the capitol that Beatrix was part of was over. But that just meant we got to stop in the impossibly Hallmark-esque town of Lake Mills, WI to have dinner and a beer at Sunshine Brewing, and got checked in to our Milwaukee hotel with enough time to run to Leon's for a frozen custard.


The next day was long, as I walked through multiple historic buildings — the job is with a historic insurance appraiser, so my task is to go through and evaluate and take pictures of significant historic aspects. In this case it means I got to explore six very distinctive buildings, most of which were part of an old leather factory, and another one in the central Third Ward that was an old bakery.







If you know me, you know there is nothing I love more than going from rooftop to basement of an old building, so I was in heaven!

After Patrick got to meet up with an old friend he got to have lunch with me at the distillery that was part of the factory complex (it's research!).


Then that night we went to Wizard Works Brewing

Explored the Catacombs of Neto (especially poignant right now), and had an amazing dinner in one of the igloos at Benelux. Everywhere we went people wanted to know what was going on in Minnesota.


Our final day I took some final building pictures and information on a snow-globe-like morning, and we went down to the lakeshore.


We grabbed lunch at St. Paul Fish in the amazing Milwaukee Public Market and ruminated as to why food halls don't seem to work here. After some brief shopping, we headed back to Minnesota, with a stop at Wisconsin Cutlery and Kitchen Supply to see our dear friend Michelle, the owner — and made it back to Minnesota to stop at the Solo Vino wine tasting before picking up Beatrix at circus.



It was an amazing brief getaway and I am so glad we went!

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