Archive for the Community Events Category

The family and I went to opening night for “How I Became A Pirate” at the First Stage Children’s Theater in Milwaukee Friday.  The play was introduced as a “World Premier” of the show.  As usual, I found myself really enjoying the production.  The music was cute and the story line progressed and kept my [...]

My dad and uncle spent years in the business of dinner theater.  I have always enjoyed seeing plays and have seen plenty of murder mysteries to last me a lifetime.  While seeing shows put on by my dad & uncle never cost me anything, going to a show outside that venue always seems to cost [...]

For Valentines Day we decided to head south to Chicago.  One of the great things about living in SE Wisconsin is the proximity to the great Windy City to the south.  There is lots to do and if you don’t run into much traffic you can be down in the loop after an hour and [...]

Milwaukee’s Bradford Beach was bustling with people on 1st January 2009 this year.  Lake Michigan is the last place you would expect to find people swimming on New Years Day!  We went down to watch those brave enough to test out the waters of Lake Michigan.  The air temp was in the 20’s the water [...]

I am not typically one to do texting or instant messaging.  I do wonder from time to time what is happening in the lives of the people from my past.  Genealogy or family history research is one of the most popular activities/hobbies on the planet so it should come as no surprise that finding living [...]

People are always looking for fun inexpensive things to do.  This year we decided to go and see the City of Milwaukee / Milwaukee County tree lighting at Red Arrow Park in downtown Milwaukee.  The Family left the house at about 4:45pm and headed downtown.  We made it there in plenty of time to [...]