Draft dodging

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 Matt has an annual baseball draft where a bunch of boys take over the house and order pizza with weird toppings on it. I normally go to my good friend Sarah's house in Indiana. But she moved to South Carolina! Way too inconvenient, maybe next year, so I took the kids to Milwaukee to stay in our favorite hotel and take in the town. 

The trip begins with a stop at the fabulous Mars Cheese castle to stock up on all of the Wisconsin treats: cheese, beer, and processed meats. And balloons and crowns!
Lunch with the King of Mars.
First stop is the bio spheres, the Milwaukee Domes. Basically a botanical garden under three really big domes. They had a series of "world changing" plants. Brock and I posed by our favorites. - Coffee, duh
Sugar, duh.
Alice absolutely loves cactuses. She had to salute this fine example.
Bird of Paradise, Brock's favorite flowering plant.
A leaf. A leaf? A leaf. And a cool train scene that took up one of the domes entirely.
Omg. I love this hotel, but our room was located on the loft overlooking the hotel bar. It was horrible. I don't know what the heck was happening in Milwaukee, but the natives were restless and it was so loud that I ended up putting Alice's headphones OVER my earplugs and then putting the covers over my head and angering myself to sleep. So I was tired. The kids were unphased.
But as you can see, it was a great room otherwise, with a table right outside the door for me to sample our stash from cheese castle and play cards while Alice went to bed earlier.
And their pool is awesome. Warm, and on the 11th floor overlooking the city. ALMOST made up for the noisy room.
After checking out we headed to their science museum, which is really quite special and has a ton of stuff unique to it that we haven't seen at other ones. Not the above, but it was still fun rearranging the tubes for the balls. It was Alice's first time with this.
Cool (or should I say warm?) thermal mirror. Or should I say clown mirror.
Brock on the bed of nails.
Alice doing something.
A turtle and a boy.
Where is my stroller? I was so jealous. Fun trip and a great way to get away from the draft.




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