Sorry for the bit of a period between posts, it was the
wonderful 2nd anniversary for my husband and me. Since our
anniversary was on the 11th we took a little holiday to relax. Typically I am not one to do all the mushy,
gushy stuff so I would say that’ll continue for this post as well. I feel that since we just got back from a
little trip I could share that as a little review. Please keep in mind that this would be only
my opinion, unless I state who else has given one.
So to preface this trip, I knew NOTHING about it. In fact I didn’t know we were going anywhere
until Derek slipped up and said he took Monday and Tuesday off. Typical me would have planned and planned and
planned this trip to death keeping in mind what we both like to do. However,
that wasn’t the case with this trip.
Derek planned everything. Getting
into the car on Friday night I had no clue where we were going, north, south
east or west. Nothing.
Now that the preface has taken place now a complete
rundown. First we went north. Dinner was
at one of my favorite places on this earth and very important to our
relationship…Purdue. We had the amazing
Bruno’s Pizza complete with Bruno Dough.
Simply amazing. After driving
around Purdue for a bit and realizing how much the campus has changed in the
3.5 years since either one of us has been there it was time to continue on our
journey.
Traveling through
Chicago during rush hour, would not recommend, but paying the tolls helps a
heck of a lot. We finally reached our destination of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express –
Milwaukee Airport. Typically I enjoy
staying at Holiday Inns, however this experience was not the best one. First, we were in a handicap room, which made
me feel horrible. Second it was on the
first floor and I swear the people above us were moving dead bodies as well as
not feeding their crying children. Finally the bed was just hard and uncomfortable. Some pros to the stay are it was close to Milwaukee
but not the expensive right down town type of place. As always the breakfast
was amazing!!
Saturday was our main day in Milwaukee. We did the MillerCoors tour. I will say after
doing the Anheuser Bush Brewery Tour, this one can’t compare. The only plus side, for those who drink, you
get 3 drinks here vs. the 2 you get an Anheuser Bush. The biggest difference was the tour itself. Anheuser Bush goes through the whole beer
making process vs. MillerCoors going through the packaging really. However I am super nerdy and prefer the
process making.
We then went down to downtown Milwaukee and decided to immerse
ourselves into local food. We went to a
small pub called Brat Haus. There we
each had a brat, Derek the German style (sour kraut, sauce cooked bun) and me
the Southerner (jalapeños, cheese, cooked bun).
It was delicious. Little known
fact they put parmesan cheese on both our French fries and our onion rings,
odd. We then walked off our meal around downtown.
There we went to the main purpose of going, Brews vs.
Philies. This ballpark has to be the
most “technologically” advanced park that I’ve been to. It was very clean, and fancy. Their food selections were amazing and
included a baked potato stand. The only
thing we got there was oven roasted pecans.
We were holding out for half priced appetizers at Applebee’s, and the
rest of the Blackhawks/Kings game.
After waking up on Sunday we decided to gradually make our
way home. Lunch was at Biaggi’s in
Carmel. Then my wonderful husband
stopped at the Fashion Mall at Keystone so I could go to a store I’ve been
dying to go into, Lush. I bought two
bath bombs and I’ll do a review of those later on.
We decided to enjoy the rest of our vacation at home as a
little stay-cation while Ace was bored.
It was an amazing time, I loved every second of it and I can’t believe it’s already been two years
of marriage to my best friend.
-Here’s to, many more to come!!
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