I’m Back Baby! at Moogaman.com

We made it back from Milwaukee. We left Milwaukee around 4pm Friday because their zoo was pretty big and not bad. Not as good as the St. Louis zoo in a lot of respects, but still not bad. Besides the zoo, we went to a brewery called the Lakefront Brewery. Sadly it wasn’t actually on the lakefront, but it was still cool. The tour was pretty lame, but you can’t argue with 4 pints of beer for $5. Don’t worry, we didn’t get drunk at all and we pretty much walked every where we went. We went to the Milwaukee Art Museum where they had an interesting exhibit on comics. It was really interesting and full of older comics from artists that defined the genre. I even saw a Silver Surfer comic that my mom has. We went the Six Flags Great America, the one close to Chicago. Milwaukee, it turns out, is about 45mins from Chicago, though we pretty much stuck to Milwaukee the whole week. The Six Flags up there is a lot like the St. Louis one and even though I’ve been to the StL Six Flags so many times, I still had a lot of fun. They have a lot of rides that are very similar. There was this one new ride called the “Superman: Ultimate Flight” that scared the pants off me. You know I don’t like heights, well this roller coaster took it’s sitting riders and turned them so the backs of their seats are pointed up. So you are riding through this coaster facing straight down so it feels like you are flying like Superman. It was a lot of fun. Check out this video to get a better idea of what I’m talking about. http://streams.sixflags.com/video/superman.wmv. It’s kinda loud so turn your speakers down. I also found out that I have an love for the sea too. We went sailing on a 16 foot sailboat with the Sea Scouts. The Sea Scouts are like the Boy Scouts on the sea and are even affiliated with Boy Scouts of America. We got to go out for free because Tim is an adult leader. He’s still learning all there is to know about sailing, but he knows more than I do. I really liked sailing and I really want to learn more and maybe start sailing myself. I even got to take control of the tiller (rudder control) and take the boat back into the dock. I didn’t even break anything.

So, you can see we had a fairly full week. We had a lot of good food, had a lot of fun. We had to pay for Lexy’s two younger siblings all week, so now I understand what it was like for my parents to take my sister and I on vacation or anywhere out to eat and all I can say I am SOOO sorry. I mean, we spent $54 at a Bob Evans on the way back. Gas in Illinois and Wisconsin was around $3.10 a gallon. So, if you think we in MO have it bad… yeah. Well, that’s all I got.