For Labor Day weekend, I asked bf what people do when they want to get away for the weekend from Chicago. Apparently, the answer was go to the lake. I gave him a dumb look because well, the lake was half a block down the street and he indicated apparently they go to different parts of the lake, like over in Michigan, or to smaller lakes in Wisconsin or something. Anyway, I actually have been wanting to see the Calatrava design Art museum in Milwaukee and I figured this was the perfect opportunity since it's only an hour and a half away. Luckily, the weekend we were there, bf's co-worker would be visiting his gf who goes to school at Marquette, so we planned to meet up in the evening. Milwaukee is a pretty small town, sort of a miniature Chicago if you will. So we figured one night would be enough, and it was. We got there just in time for Harley-Davidson weekend! We also visited a brewery (really fun and got fairly drunk for $7), visited The Safehouse (A restaurant where you must know a secret password to get in or have to do silly things in front of a camera that is broadcasted to the restaurant. It's sort of a spy themed restaurant and you also need to figure out the secret to just get out of there... sort of ridiculous but a fun experience, esp. if you have kids), went to a few bars with his friends, and then we hit up the museum and the public market before going home. I was fairly sick the entire weekend but made the best of it. Probably won't be returning but it was really worth the drive to see that museum. And eat cheese and drink beer.
Road trip!
I really wanted to stop here, but we didn't =(
Being sick, I didn't take a lot of pictures of most of our trip. I really came for the museum and busted the camera out for that for sure. Here's the inside:
And this is the outside: The attraction is that in the morning, at noon, and at the end of the day, these "wings" open and close. Here is it open, just before noon.
At noon, they begin to close:
Closed:
And then they open up again before closing at the end of the day. It's probably a 5-10 minute process but it's pretty neat to watch. I'm an architectural nerd.
I really wanted to stop here, but we didn't =(
Being sick, I didn't take a lot of pictures of most of our trip. I really came for the museum and busted the camera out for that for sure. Here's the inside:
And this is the outside: The attraction is that in the morning, at noon, and at the end of the day, these "wings" open and close. Here is it open, just before noon.
At noon, they begin to close:
Closed:
And then they open up again before closing at the end of the day. It's probably a 5-10 minute process but it's pretty neat to watch. I'm an architectural nerd.
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