Milwaukee

This past weekend, we decided to take a short trip up to Milwaukee. A little family get-away. This was our first trip away as a family, and we were looking forward to showing Kendall the sights.

We headed up Saturday morning and took in the city.

First stop was for lunch. Turns out Kendall LOVES soft pretzels, and chicken fingers, and ketchup. This was the weekend of Kendall trying all sorts of new foods, and loving all of them.

After lunch we took a walk along the Riverwalk to see the new Fonz statue. Kendall was a bit confused by The Fonz. And possibly by the British telephone both, fully equipped with functioning pay phone (when is the last time you saw a pay phone?).

After that, we checked out campus. So much has changed in the few years since we graduated (really? 6 years?!?!). New buildings are popping up all over the place, renovations, and campus is expanding. Of course, we hit the book store - can't leave town without Marquette gear. And took a long walk through campus taking pictures and introducing Kendall to all the places we used to spend all our time.

On Sunday, we hit the main goal of our trip, the Milwaukee County Zoo.

Kendall had a blast. As I have discussed previously, Kendall loves birds, and Milwaukee did not disappoint. At the zoo there are free range peacocks, swans, ducks, and flamingos just hanging around at the watering holes. You can get up close and personal with them, much to Kendall's delight.

There is also an aviary at the zoo, which was fun until you get to the room with the birds flying over you. I have always been scared of this at the zoo, but Kendall loved it!

I did enjoy the bird with the handlebar mustache, as is evident in the video below. I recommend turning off your sound to watch this one, the waterfall is really loud. Kendall does get excited, and is squawking right along with the birds.

Kendall also really liked the giraffes. We finally learned what sound a giraffe makes (apparently they are not mute, they make low grunts, who knew?). None of the other animals really held Kendall's interest, but she enjoyed the time and was really happy at the zoo. And of course, we made a mold-a-rama.

After all this, we had one tired little girl.

Good-bye until next time Milwaukee!