STILL in Milwaukee

August 21 – Uh oh!  Both of us received a recorded message call to our phones at the same time this morning!  It was the ferry company letting us know all ferries for today were cancelled due to 7 -10 waves on the lake.  Crap!  We had said yesterday we could have used another day, so looks like we’re going to get it.

First thing was to call the front desk and extend our room another night.  Then to call Enterprise and let them know we were keeping the car another day.  We called the ferry and told them we wanted to try for tomorrow.  Once those tasks were completed we went for breakfast.  They pretty much have the same things as Comfort Inn.  They had bacon today

A Frank Lloyd Wright House

and more waffles, fresh fruit, 2 types of eggs and hash browns, plus oatmeal, boxed cereal and pastries.  No one was going hungry.

We started our day by going to see the Frank Lloyd Wright American Build homes.  He designed them to be economical homes.  Some were single

Single family house

family and some were 2 family condo type houses.  If you know his work you can tell immediately that they are his design.  Some are privately owned and some are in a foundation but they were not open to the public today.  Surprise, surprise!

Inside the dome

Closer in to the city is the St. Josephat Basilica that I read was really worth seeing so that was out next stop.  It is breathtaking!  It reminds you of the old churches and cathedrals in Europe.  The stained glass, the painted dome, the overly ornate columns, walls and niches are so European.  The gentleman working in the

One of the stained glass
windows

gift shop was very informative regarding the hierarchy of the church.  Pictures do not do it justice, for sure. 

Time for lunch!  Where to go?  We decided to hunt up one the places that honor the Miller tokens and ended up kind of down

The Basilica

town.  We both had the brisket and it melted in our mouths.  Wow!  I had a Blue Moon with my lunch and gave the other token to our server.

As we were pulling out of our parking spot we noticed a “going out of business” sale so re-parked and went to check it out.  This was a Boston Store, part of the Younkers stores.  We spent a little time there and boy was it getting down to the nitty gritty.  I bought 2 tops and a couple other things at such a good price!

I googled used book stores and found there were 2 big ones in the area, but one was literally at the airport and we didn’t want to deal with airport parking and all that so we went to the other one.  It reminded us of Bookman’s in Tucson.  We left with 20 used books!  Yeehaw!

For dinner we went to El Bizo, a Mexican place.  Neither of us was very hungry so Bill got their taco special and I had a tamale and a fish taco, no beans, no rice and that was plenty. 

We did most of our packing as we bought way more stuff than we can carry on, so we planned to check my cooler bag and our duffel and carry on the rest of our stuff in a heavy duty shopping bag.  The question is:  will the ferry run tomorrow????

It was nice to lay in bed and read, very relaxing!