My mom's visit

We've been having a great time with my mom here. We went down to Milwaukee on Saturday night, so she should go to her music conference that started on Sunday, and the hotel we were staying in was absolutely gorgeous. It was the Hilton right downtown, and it was stunning. Very opulent and ritzy without being gaudy. The first night there (Saturday) we ate at the Miller Time Pub right in the hotel, and it was pretty good. Overpriced, like all hotel food, but still good.

Then on Sunday, Dan, Kate and I went to Discovery World while my mom was at her conference. We had a blast! There was so much there to see. Kate loved the aquarium; every fish she saw, she was enthralled. We also went to the electronics exhibit (you can guess who loved that the most!), the Les Paul guitar exhibit and this recreation of a 19th century cargo schooner. That was very interesting, although I definitely got claustrophobic when I went down into the crew's quarters; talk about cramped!

Sunday night, we ate at Benihana's, which was delicious as always, but the service was incredibly slow. We were there over two hours! At least it was fun to hang out together and enjoy some good food, but still. Then Dan took the Badger Bus back to Madison so he could go to work the next day, and my mom and I just hung out at the hotel.


At lunch at the hotel restaurant before we headed to Discovery World




Kate enthralled with the aquarium. You can see she's pointing, which is her new favorite thing to do





Cutie pie in her new stroller! Well, it's not "new"; we got it for my baby shower, but this was the first time we could use it, because before this she was too little and needed to stay in her stroller that we could set her car seat in.




Kate & Mama looking at the jelly fish


Learning about levers and screws or something scientific like that