Wisconsin weekend

I'm back from a long weekend in Wisconsin for Mike and Tristan's wedding. The wedding was beautiful.

We arrived on thursday night, and met up with Jessica and Robbie friday morning to go sight seeing. We started the day with an "early" lunch (early only by midwest time zones, but noon back on the coast) at some brewpub where we had the most delicious raspberry beer. We continued on to a tour of the Pabst mansion. We took the mansion tour which was lead by this very old lady. In the "medical things and quackeries" room, the tour guide decided to read from a pamphlet in the room that she had never seen before and begins to read "dr. mcfilthy's crotch powder" and got so embarassed that she punched jessica in the arm exlaiming "i cant believe i read that outloud!"

We then moved on to the lakefront brewery, which is the first certified organic brewery. They had the best pumpkin beer that i've ever tried. We then moved on to bar louie to cash in on our free drink coupons. We ordered a drink called the smore, and they had run out of marshmallows so she gave us "cholives" in our drinks! We'd never had them before, but they were delicious...I say this in the past tense b/c we looked them up later and the company closed down..so we possibly ate the last cholives in existence. They are chocolate truffles in the shape of olives if you were wondering. delicious!