Day 9 - Milwaukee

Saturday, July 11th. Neither of us had ever been to Milwaukee, so we spent the afternoon in the downtown area and checked out the sites. The city is fairly big, and according to wikipedia, it's the 23rd largest city in the USA, at about 600,000 people. It's located on the shore of Lake Michigan and has two main attractions, the waterfront and the Miller brewery.

The Miller compound, which includes the brewery and distribution center, are both in downtown Milwaukee. 2nd fun fact of the road trip - the brewery's warehouse is the size of 8 football fields. Each day more than 500,000 cases of beer are shipped out of the distribution center; 40 percent of the beer is shipped to Chicago.

We started the day with a tour of Miller brewery:




Marshall enjoyed 30 free ounces of Miller tastings. Michelle enjoyed fresh squeezed lemonade:



After the brewery tour and free tastings, we headed to the waterfront (Michelle drove). Milwaukee was celebrating Bastille Day so the downtown area was busy with a street festival, including bands, vendors, etc. The Milwaukee Museum of Art is the big attraction on the waterfront. It's a very odd shaped building and overlooks Lake Michigan:





Early to bed, early to rise...