Adrienne worked until noon, so I had the morning to myself. I spent it getting ready and also took a walk to the post office (which Adrienne told me later was in a bad part of town, whoops!). After she came home, we went out and she played Milwaukee tour guide for the day.
Let me preface this by saying that the weather yesterday was less than ideal. Actually, it was bad- mid 50's and raining all day. Very uncharacteristic for Wisconsin in the summer! Still, Adrienne was determined to still show me the sights and sounds.
We drove around Marquette, which is easy to do on such an urban campus. Still pretty though. In fact, the whole downtown is pretty scenic and manages to escape that whole 70's arcitechture vibe, which is nice.
Finding parking downtown could have been filled as a reality show. We found a spot only a couple blocks from our destination, but we realized we didn't have quarters for the meters. We tried to ask a parking attendant for change but he only tried to swindle a spot out of us. No way dude! So Adrienne ended up dropping me off at a cousin's subs store to get change while she drove around the block (this is all in the pouring rain mind you). I came out of the store with 8 quarters and Adrienne had to cut across four lanes of traffic, so she got honked at a bit. Then we finally found a spot, and said spot had 1 hour 52 minutes left in the meter. Didn't need those quarters after all!
So, we finally arrived at our destination- The Safe House for lunch. The safe house is this spy-themed restaurant with trap doors and passwords- and that's just to get in! It was a fun place to eat, as they have memorabilia and spy knick-knacks all over the place. And you have to find the secret route out too, which Adrienne had to subtly ask how to find (yes, it's that hidden).
After lunch we did some walking and driving around downtown. We saw Cathedral Square, where they have jazz concerts every Thursday during the summer. We also saw UWM's campus (massive) and some of the shoreline of Lake Michigan. All of these were prefaced with the line
of "this would be nice if it wasn't so rainy/foggy". Still, some good views.
Later that day, we went to the Brewers game with some of Adrienne's friends (Maggie, Mike, Sarah, Dave, and Kathy). The cool thing that Milwaukee does is that a majority of the bars have free shuttles to the game and back. We went to O'Brians before the game to have a few drinks and to catch their shuttle. The shuttle ride there was hysterical- some drunk girls and winconsin type people gave us some good fodder (the drunk girls saw us later and acted like we were best friends). There is some good people-watching in Milwaukee, and Adrienne and her friends make good use of it.
The game was tons of fun- the Brewers ended up scoring 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs and a full count to win the game. Miller Park is pretty cool, and they have some funny traditions- the world famous Klement's sausage race in the 6th (the Italian sausage won
despite my cheering for the chorizo) and the singing of "roll out the barrel" after take me out to the ballgame. And there were lots of people-watching there too.
After the game was a little bit chaotic catching the right shuttle back (and making jokes along the way). When we got back to Adrienne's we ended up hanging out and talking until midnight- crazy!
All in all Milwaukee was tons of fun- it was great to see Adrienne and see her life up here. I enjoyed Wisconsin and all it had to offer! Adrienne, don't worry, you made the blog In a positive light! I have now seen two out of the three Fritzsche children- sorry to the third
who shall remain anonymous...
Now it's onward to Dayton!
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