AmeriSuites Milwaukee Airport

I'm working on a grant for the National Institutes of Health that is due early next week. Once that's done, it's full-on preparation for our month-long Journey to India. Daisy is doing her Santa impression (making her list, checking it thrice) and we received 4 new pieces of luggage the other day. <br><br>The airline tickets are booked and now we just have to finalize some domestic trips while on the sub-continent.<br>

Exciting times! One more day before the big trip and we are doing out last minute preparations before we go. There are things to be packed though and that will get done tonight and then a little bit more tomorrow. We have an evening flight so we should be pretty well rested and ready to scout about Copenhagen as soon as we get checked into the hotel.<br><br>Stay tuned for more!<br>

... it would be to pick out one. <br><br>Presently, Wisconsin is very chilly. I feel like it's October, rather than August. The high is in the very low 60's! Today I've just been working around the house, making bread, washing jackets and getting my room clean.<br><br>That's all I got for now, but will write more when I have more!<br>

... our collection of dish towels! Please don't mistake me as being ungrateful. It's nice that they get me anything at all. They also offered to pay for a new cell phone (Palm Pre here I come!). Seeing mom and dad and Lucy of course is always a treat. Even though our time together was short, we got to catch up on developments of their new Florida home, dad's golf game and retirement, and life in general.<br><br>Time to board the Midwest ...

A relaxing visit with good friends situated in Milwaukee&#8217;s Bayview neighborhood was highlighted by gorgeous summer weather. Caught in a perpetual heat wave since our Oregon exodus, I reveled in the cool breezes that wafted over Lake Michigan, basked in warm sunshine, and relished morning jogs through beautiful, nearby monastery grounds (though dormant for many years, my adolescent fascination with monastic life still remains ...

Thanks to Rob for allowing me to stay in his baller ass apartment situated directly on top of a bar, I got to experience the greatness that is Milwaukee (when the weather is nice). I got to hit up a few brewery tours, some sweet bars (spy bar!), cheap beer wasn't hard to find, finally tried out P90X (ouch) and I even experienced the Blink182 ...

... weren't even close to being this cold. 10 seconds with out gloves on and my hands start to burn. It even hurts to breathe, the cold air attacking my lungs if I take a deep breath. Now I really wish I brought a coat. And didn't lose one of my gloves in New York. On the brightside I'm back in Milwaukee with the people I love, and I get to see a lot of them tonight. :)

... process and we were able to leave on an earlier flight, still about 2 hours behind schedule. After landing in Milwaukee, we were advised of yet another delay. The long airport runway we needed to use was struck by lightening the day before and out of commission. The pilot had to dump some fuel so he could get us up in the air using the shorter runway...the bad news about that was ...

... not to think about the opening episode of Lost, and wondering how bad it would have to get before those little masks dropped from the ceiling. The man across the aisle from me gasped as we hit a particularly big bump. Eventually things began to calm down again and I stopped sweating. The beverage cart came out again and started up the aisle when suddenly there was an announcement that we were making an emergency landing in Albuquerque. We had ...

... Prime Outlets, had tex-mex lunch, with Stoney's famous "bloody lettuce", I went to my first ever NBA game and we had a EU vs. US basketball game (Carsten, Kyle, Takashi, Kevin and Harold joined) followed by a nice dinner at Hooters. Also, we went bowling one evening, which was quite fun:) Also, it was the first time I tried burgers ...