Week number two in Milwaukee

Just finishing another night shift, we are starting to get used to things here. I am feeling much better in the homesickness arena which is a huge blessing since the first few days I felt sort of "doom and gloom" but things are going much better. And today is the beginning of Summerfest! The worlds largest music festival. Stevie Wonder is the big opener tonight, bummed that I am working. But there will be many others to see in concert. Also learned this week and Milwaukee has the largest Italian festival in the US! That will be in mid July.

The largest water park is also located here in Wisconsin, Noah's Ark at the Wisconsin Dell's. We plan to visit on a weekend off, the Dell's is a couple hours west of Milwaukee and is a top vacation spot with a lot of resorts and family activities, it sort of sounds like Branson, MO. I never would have guessed that Wisconsin has the biggest water park, like their record high is 105 degrees, shouldn't Arizona or Florida have the most massive water park?

Anyway Milwaukee is fun in the summer there are all sorts of fun neighborhoods downtown, a riverwalk, and of course lake Michigan is awesome. On Tuesday we went down and biked along the shoreline, then we flew kites again and musicians are out in the evenings as well down on the water. I think Milwaukee reminds me of a littler version of Chicago, very ethnic, unique downtown area and lake michigan.

Now Menomonee Falls, the suburb I work is considered a "village". What's great about it is it is a suburb about 15 min from Milwaukee proper, but feels like a small town with unique coffee shops and cafe's, people seem to know each other, has it's own farmers market etc. It is really pretty here.

We have slacked off in taking pictures, will post some this next week.