Iron Horse Hotel Milwaukee

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>

Well Hello,<br><br>Time is definitely speeding up these days. I have less than a month before I leave for Ukraine. I am filled with many emotions, but excited for all that I am going to be doing in the next two years!<br><br>Today I'm resting, shopped a decent part of the weekend trying to get ready. Went to REI and bought several ...

... fun of NYC. As much as we are both a little sad to see the trip end, it's time to get back. We miss our apartment, our friends, cooking, and the general familiar things that make our lives what they are.<br><br>People were starting to stir in the Chmielewski home by the time we got back: Nancie was awake but Tom was still sleeping. Since he never sleeps past 5:00AM, she went upstairs to make sure he was still breathing. (He was ...

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 ...

... to get directions prior to heading out. Its set back off the main street down an alley with no visable markings idenifying it self as the Safe House. If your an International Spy this is the place for you. The Safe House is a restaurant and bar with a "Spy" underworld theme...its great. If you happen to be in town during baseball season you have got to take in a Brewer's game. Miller park is an easy drive located just a few minutes from downtown. Grab a few ...

Now we are heading back to Milwaukee to go to Chris' sisters wedding!! (It actually already happened!) It was an action packed wedding week including a couple dinners, the Brewers game, a brewery tour at Lakefront Brewery, golf for the boys, the rehearsal dinner, wedding day, and then wedding brunch with a afternoon trip up to Madison. Our friend Dan also made the trip out to WI to come ...

I made it! I'm so tired though despite sleeping most of the time on the airplanes. I did get to watch, "Talledega Nights", "Fast and the Furious 3" and "Cars" on the flight from Hong Kong. I had the last seat on the 11:55 AM flight from LAX to MKE and I even went to play volleyball last night despite my being so jet ...

This time the conference was longer than previous years - 10 days, and included a weekend team activity. We took an american schoolbus to a YMCA camp some one hour drive from Mkee. The camp was fun - we did some group and team building activities, including high ropes, played a great game of football (international, not american version;-) and in the evening there was jungle speed! We introduced the game to our American colleagues and this ...

... mostly at high tables or counters, and the chairs are clear acrylic. The counter has colored water bubbling away inside it from the floor up the counter itself. In the area where there are actual padded seats, the design is wavy, again giving the aquatic look. At night this becomes a disco with ear-shattering music, neon lights, and so much noise that I'm surprised that ...