Wisconsin-Day Two

Milwaukee has this thing they do called "Open Door Milwaukee." It is where buildings that aren't normally open to the public open their doors for tours. There are tons of buildings open, more than you could do in the weekend. We started with Walthers, train distributors. If you look close in the layout, you can see the Star Wars addition....a true nerd at work.

Then we went to the US Bank building, tallest building in Milwaukee. There is a volleyball court just beneath the baseball field in the middle. That is where we left Chris in 2007 when he started college. Seems like forever ago.

Toured the Bradley Center...Chris with size 18 shoes from one of the players.

This was in the concert rooms where they had things from the artists that had played there. We saw Rod Stewart in 2012.

Before we went on the brewery tour (think more beer drinking, less touring!) we stopped for lunch at the Old German Beer Hall. Great brats and beer. No pictures from the brewery tour, but was really fun.

Wisconsin-Day one

First stop....WOOL!

National Train Museum in Green Bay: Big Boy Diesel engine

We were passengers in the cab and this was our conductor; a retired military man.

Green Bay trip not complete without a drive around Lambeau

Baseball: the Cards and Brewers in Miller park

the great sausage race

New Cards

Went to my first card club with a Stampin' Up demonstrator friend. The girls and I made these cool cards. These are from our monthly card swap for August. Shabby Chic/Vintage was the theme.

August wrap-up

Guess who is now (well, has been for a while) old enough for a fish bowl? three generations of Reininger men, and Paul's grandfather was worried about the family name being carried on Becky meeting her granddaughter Carley for the first time Grizzlies baseball game with my hubby When we visited Carley, I was still a pro at getting her settled. Even Paul had her napping. My annual nantucket basket, this one is a market basket.

Ophelia is dressed

My wonderful mom has finished Ophelia's dress, even with the lace. Ophelia was a class that was taken on a cruise in 2004 with Merry Cox. Monica and Carole were there and we had the most fun. We made small sewing pieces to go with Ophelia, some done, some not quite. We also papered the inside of her trunk and collected travel ephemera. Since the cruise went into San Francisco and Canada, tried to find things for each place. In 2008, we went to Williamsburg for Ophelia 2, where we made small quilts, a small wool rug, and a shaker box with accessories. She is already a well accessorized girl.....and hopefully I will finish the rest soon so that she is complete.

City Deer

On my way home from work one night, I came across these deer right next to the road. I turned around to take pictures....love the two small young ones. They are apparently used to the city life as they didn't run, even with traffic.

TNT

Thursday Night Trains (TNT) is a group that Paul has belonged to for many years. When the boys were younger, he really wasn't able to make many Thursday nights. But now he is able to go more frequently.They meet at different houses each Thursday night to work on that guy's train layout-tracks, engines, scenery, whatever they need. Love the batman car under the train table. Last night was our first TNT at our house. With brownies, nuts, and chips, they had a great time and Paul got lots of help.