Category: Parks/Beaches
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Chapter 108- Mitchell Park Domes
A few weeks ago, my good friend Chai came up to visit us from Chicago. Chai has two amazing girls, A & V, who have most definitely inherited their mother’s creative bone. I’ll get to that at the end of this post. Anyway, we met up on Monday morning at The Domes. It was an incredibly busy…
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Chapter 102- Mitchell Park Domes & Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
Last Friday, my dear friend came into town from Madison with her girls. Since The Domes were a staple when my friend lived here, we didn’t even consider where else to meet! Oh, and Little T, if you’re reading this in the future, I’m sorry you couldn’t come and see your friends. Darn school! Ok,…
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Chapter 94 – Dia de los Muertos Parade
A few weeks ago, on a cold Saturday, I took the kids to see the Dia de los Muertos Parade at Walker’s Square Park. I had forgotten that last year, Theo took the twins and Little T to it, while I stayed home with baby S who was just a few days old. From what…
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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 74- Buena Vista, Colorado (Travel Edition, obviously)
Pardon the long break, everyone! It’s been a busy few weeks, and this post explains a big chunk of that. Get ready for a week in (a million) pictures… I took Little A and Baby S to visit my sister in Colorado last week, and had a blast. How did I end up taking just…
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Chapter 73- Possibility Playground
A change of scenery is always welcome, so when the opportunity to meet up with some family at Possibility Playground in Port Washington came up, we jumped at it. The playground is “universally accessible” so kids with all abilities can enjoy the fun. And as a bonus, it has a fence around the playground and only…
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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…