Rich loves to go to Weissgerber’s German restaurant in Waukesha, WI for his birthday meal.\u00a0 Something to do with ham hocks.\u00a0 That’s basically what schweinshaxe is.\u00a0 So we invited Dave, Chris, Tim, and Deb to go with us.\u00a0 Barb isn’t into German food so declined to join us.\u00a0 We did miss you guys, Barb and Mike!\u00a0<\/p>\n
After I sent out the email, I thought to ask Doug and Nina if they wanted to go with us also.\u00a0 They said yes.\u00a0 Then the plan became going to the Milwaukee Art Museum with Doug and Nina and then on to the restaurant to meet everyone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Doug was the best man at our wedding.\u00a0 Over the years, we’ve seen each other off and on.\u00a0 You know how life gets in the way sometimes.\u00a0 So it had been a few years.\u00a0 Rick was still Andy and not the tall young man he was today.\u00a0 We had never been to the Milwaukee Art Museum so that was a trip in learning how to navigate downtown Milwaukee.\u00a0 The museum\u00a0is right on the lake front.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We arrived and found Doug and Nina in the entrance hall.\u00a0 After catching up for a bit, we ventured off to see the sights.\u00a0 Nina was interested in the current exhibit and it had possibilities for me as well.\u00a0 Rick decided to tag along with us.\u00a0 The exhibit was, “The Accidental Artist.”\u00a0 The theme was mostly folk art, but the artists had some link to mental institutions or extreme hardships.\u00a0 I loved some much of it.<\/p>\n
Doug and Rich wandered the building and mostly talked to bring them up to date of each other.\u00a0 I think they probably talked about beer and brewing a lot.\u00a0 Doug is a big homebrewer as well.<\/p>\n
Rick really loved the architecture of the building.\u00a0 It is designed as a large ship with a movable sail.\u00a0 Everything is absolutely white, including the marble floors.\u00a0 It is quite the impressive building.\u00a0 We decided that we would have to come back and spend more time wandering the hallways.<\/p>\n
We arrived at Weissgerber’s before everyone.\u00a0 So we sat in the bar and most everyone ordered a beer.\u00a0 Not Rick though.\u00a0 After waiting and needing some type of food to go with the beer, we moved to the main room of the restaurant.\u00a0 The stained glass window in their is fabulous.\u00a0 Tim and Deb arrived first followed by Dave and Chris.<\/p>\n
We ordered some wonderful German fare and drank some very nice beers and wines.\u00a0 Talk moved up and down the table.\u00a0 Rich’s birthday was the 10th.\u00a0 Dave’s birthday was the 13th.\u00a0 Doug still had to celebrate his on the 17th.\u00a0 April was a\u00a0 popular month for babies.\u00a0 We continued on to dessert and talked some more.\u00a0 It was really wonderful.<\/p>\n
It was hard to say good night in the parking lot, but Sascha was waiting at home for us.\u00a0 Poor thing had spent the biggest part of the day on her own.\u00a0 I’m sure she would be glad to see us return.\u00a0 And she was.\u00a0 Rich had a great birthday dinner with friends.\u00a0 Rick made sure we got back home safely.\u00a0 Sascha provided the warm welcome back.\u00a0 Not a bad day at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rich loves to go to Weissgerber’s German restaurant in Waukesha, WI for his birthday meal.\u00a0 Something to do with ham hocks.\u00a0 That’s basically what schweinshaxe is.\u00a0 So we invited Dave, Chris, Tim, and Deb to go with us.\u00a0 Barb isn’t into German food so declined to join us.\u00a0 We did miss you guys, Barb and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}