Category: Adventures with kids
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Chapter 66- Northpoint Custard & The Lakefront
Welcome my first guest blogger! Meet my sister-in-law Lisa Slama. She, my brother, and their two young boys live on Milwaukee’s northern shore. They are a family who loves to be outside, ride bikes, enjoy the city’s fine beer culture, work hard, and spend time with neighbors and friends. This past weekend, they helped me…
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Chapter 65- Milwaukee County Zoo
Remember how when I was on The Morning Blend (round two), I was all “we do a lot of foreshadowing and it helps our adventures to be successful”? Yeah well I didn’t do that before our trip to the zoo last week. We met a group of friends (we were four moms with ten kids…
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Chapter 64- Hawthorn Glen
Hawthorn Glen was calling our name again. We packed up sandwiches (instead of their normal Jif peanut butter and Smucker’s jam, I substituted homemade almond butter and purple carrot/blueberry puree. They were not fooled) and headed out to Hawthorn Glen. Unfortunately, construction of the parking lot is still underway, so we parked on State Street…
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Chapter 63- Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (On the Road- Cathedral Square)
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra gave a free concert in Cathedral Square, and since it was one of the most beautiful days in a while, we packed up a picnic and headed out. We arrived just after 5:30pm, and met up with my brother and his family. We brought blankets, food, beverages, and one chair. Because…
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Chapter 62- Urban Ecology Center & Love Handle
On Saturday I took the kids to the Urban Ecology Center’s Plant Sale. We looked at the plants and flowers for a quick bit, then headed inside to check things out. We stopped at the Native Wisconsin Animal Room, and checked out the reptiles. The nice guy working even took out a snake for us…
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Chapter 61- Rural La Crosse (Travel Edition)
For Memorial Day weekend, we headed to the La Crosse area to visit family. I can’t showcase any of the sites, events, businesses or parks of the area, because all we did was play outside our family’s home. Kids ran in the sprinkler. Ran down hills. Helped feed some horses. And some goats. Watched the…
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Chapter 59- Discovery World
Because Little T had been begging for a year, we bit the bullet and got a membership to Discovery World. It was actually sort of reasonable, compared to the daily ticket prices. We only have to go three times to make it worth the annual fee. But we went on a Saturday morning, hoping it…
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Chapter 58- Wehr Nature Center
Last week we met up with some new friends and explored Wehr Nature Center for the first time. Here’s Little T doing her best Vanna White impression. We parked and went inside to pay the $3 parking fee, then found our friends and hit the trails. The trails we made it to were either paved…
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Chapter 57- Milwaukee Public Museum & Milwaukee Public Market
On Saturday I went on a Special Date (or “Feshil Date” as she says) with Little T. We put on our sunglasses and headed to the Milwaukee Public Museum’s theater and planetarium to see the 40 minute long movie “One World, One Sky” (hosted by Big Bird, Elmo, and their Chinese friend Hu Hu Zhu).…
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Chapter 56- Hoyt Park
On a day too cold for spring jackets and no hats, we took a family walk around the trails at Hoyt Park. I don’t have too many pictures because we were all sort of freezing and preoccupied with keeping moving/warm. We parked at the Hoyt Park & Pool, and walked through the Beer Garden…