My momma came to visit!

Hello again to all!

Things have been fairly low key since my last post. In work news: I am now working 10 hour shifts at the hospital (meaning I have every Monday off! So come visit me with my three day weekends!) The job is still going great and I'm very happy that I made the move out here!

On October 2 and 3rd - Mom came across the ferry to visit me in mynew city and man did we have a blast!!!!! Unfortunately the weather sucked (rainy and in the upper 40's low 50's!) which is only made a even bigger bummer since every weekend past that one has been gorgeous and in the 70's! Oh Midwest weather....yeah, I guess I missed you, too. Our Saturday was started bright and early with a trip to the Waukesha Farmer's market where Mom had her first experience with Wisconsin squeaky cheese! For those of you who don't know...the squeakier the cheese is, the fresher it is! It's quite humorous if you ask me! And we also talked milk with a nice farmer - because, hey, that's just how we roll. And no visit with me is complete without a trip to Goodwill :) Like mother like daughter: we love the thrift stores! We later explored downtown Milwaukee, saw the giant pumpkin, and the Bronze Fonz. Our plans were to eat dinner at the Safehouse, but they were full :( but (with a little password help from Jim) we still went in just to have a drink!

Dinner that night was the highlight of Mom's trip! Minding our own business at RockBottom brewery, poor Jim got roped into participating in a bachelorette party. Upon completion of his hugging task...Mom was thanked for being such a good sport and 'allowing her husband to participate'. Now normally when I see an older (not that you're old, Mom!) woman sitting down to dinner with 2 twenty somethings, I would automatically assume that, most likely, those people would be her children, but not this woman! So either poor Jim looks old, My mom looks young, or the cougar relationships are out in full force in Milwaukee! We all got a great laugh! When the confused woman learned that there was no matrimonial bliss between Jim and Mom, she proceeded to tell Jim about her "intelligent and voluptuous sister" who also appeared to be a bit older than I think a 24y/o guy would be into. Never a dull moment when you're out with us!

At the Waukesha Riverwalk

The giant pumpkin (that someone stabs and deflated every year)

My mom's the only person so far to stand by the Bronze Fonz and not automatically do the thumbs up pose!

After 'the incident', Mom with her newly betrothed. Watch out John!

Sunday wasn't nearly as exciting as the previous night, but still fun! We spent some time shopping and seeing the (not as pretty as Michigan's) Wisconsin coastline. In true Brew City fashion, I took mom on a brewery tour! We went on the Sprecher one as not many places provide tours on Sundays. It was a cute little micro brewery and we got tickets for 4 samples at the end. Tour = fun, beer = gross gross gross! We had so much fun laughing at the all the flavors we hated! It probably didn't help that we were a little tipsy, but we figured that if the beer was actually really good, we wouldn't have had such a great time! We learned that Sprecher's root beer out sells every other product combined. We are proud to say that now, we know why!

Mom and I before we tried the beer (cause we're still smiling!)

We drove by the intersection of Keefe & Richards (get it?!? Keefe Richards..Keith Richards?! Gotta love easy entertainment!)

A good time was had by all! I'll be heading to MI the end of October, we'll see if I have another adventure then! Take care everyone!