Category: Adventures with kids
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Chapter 93- Milwaukee Art Museum’s Playdate with Art
Milwaukee Art Museum‘s Playdates with Art are back on the calendar, and we met up with our new friends of Ana & Zelli last month. Little T’s school schedule got in the way, so we only got to hang out for an hour at the museum. And as it turns out, an hour is not…
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Chapter 92- Pajama Jamboree with Milwaukee’s Festival City Symphony
Are you familiar with free symphony concerts for families? Well you should be, because they’re awesome. Milwaukee’s Festival City Symphony has Pajama Jamborees, which are amazing opportunities to get your pjs on, grab blankies, and listen to some great music and hear stories and learn about instruments. I took the big kids on a feshil mama…
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Chapter 91- Estabrook Beer Garden for a Birthday Party!
For this little lady’s birthday, we did absolutely zero planning and had a blast. Here were the ingredients: friends and family, pizza, a playground, beer, and my mother-in-law’s carrot cake recipe. Because a place where you can drink a beer while pushing your kids on the swing is alright with us, we met at Estabrook…
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Chapter 90- Doyne Park Cyclocross Race
You’ve seen my posts about Cyclocross before, so I’ll refrain from explaining the sport again and just go straight to the good stuff. I headed out with Little T to watch my brother and some of his buddies (all donning new Stone Creek Coffee gear) at Doyne park. I’d never been to the park before,…
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Chapter 89- Hubbard Park Beer Garden (in two parts)
Last week, we went to Hubbard Park twice and had a blast both times. On our first adventure, we met some friends and friends of friends on a weekday and threw rocks in the water, played in mud, and watched the salmon swim up stream. Since it’s the end of the beer garden season,…
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Chapter 86- The Landing (Tosa’s Beer Garden)
This post is to remind you that the beer gardens in the Milwaukee County Parks are still open! Raise your steins and let your kids play in the dirt/grass/rocks, and dance a bit if you time it right. We headed to The Landing at Hoyt Park a few weeks ago, and promptly set up shop…
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Chapter 85- ROM at Anodyne Coffee Roasters & Quarters
Alright, get ready for a slew of pictures of my kids dancing. I took them to Anodyne Coffee Roasters to see the band ROM from Washington DC last week, and the kids were incredibly excited to see some music by the band…and to dance. The girls really wanted to wear dresses (and arm warmers for…
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Chapter 87- Mitchell Boulevard Park & Story Hill BKC
Because life is busy and I can’t manage to get my kids out of the house as often as I’d like, I made myself fit in a park/picnic date yesterday. We found ourselves at the Mitchell Boulevard Park with hummus and cheese sandwiches on a sunny and breezy day. The picture above is for my…
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Chapter 83- Cross The Rock (Cyclocross Bike Race)
In cyclocross, bikers race through laps of rough terrain, steep hills, and obstacles in a timed event. Races generally last between 30-60 minutes depending on the course, and the season runs fall through winter (making weather a huge factor in the difficulty of the event…check out last winter’s post about some below zero action!). I think the…
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Chapter 82- East Troy Electric Railroad
This picture is was taken after a frantic car-unloading session and mad dash to the train that was waiting on us. I was late to meet my friends at The Elegant Farmer to catch the East Troy electric train. You see, there’s a Bermuda Triangle that exists for me. It’s the highway system just south…