Milwaukee Trip

Well, it's that time again for NMFN's Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, WI. I was especially excited to go this year because Bradley was being recognized on stage. I took over 300 pictures during the 5 days we were there so I made a few collages to sum up the events.

~DAY 1 - July 18th
We flew out of Birmingham at 10am & landed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin around 2pm. We headed to the hotel to check-in then went straight to the Midwest Airlines Center to pickup our registration bags & look at the exhibits. Notice: My hubby is on one of the big exhibits, I will give you the details on this later.

 

We had dinner with Trent H, Clay & Trent G at The Capital Grille, they have the best filets ever. Then we all hopped in a cab & went to our "traditional" spot, LUCILLE'S Dual Piano Bar...and of course we had a blast as always.

 

~DAY 2 - July 19th
This morning was the annual Roots & Wings 5K/10K race (note: we walk the 1 mile & meet everyone afterwards, haha!!), bright & early at 8am. This year the Klement's Racing Sausages were there, waiting at the finish line to greet the runners. We then walked over to The Astor Hotel for the annual breakfast.
-The middle bottom picture is the Riverwalk...with lots of great restaurants, breweries & shops, and I took the bottom right picture to show how cool the buildings are there...and look how clean this city is!!

 

And then, the annual Garden Party at the Milwaukee County Zoo...this is always my favorite & its so much fun!!! This year they used a pirate theme...see the bar area below(bottom left square, top right picture). There are tons of tents set up with different food, drinks, & entertainment in each tent...one food tent had entertainment by the Trinity Irish Dancers & another food tent had entertainment by "The Love Monkeys." We headed over to the zoo part & saw the flamingos but didn't continue through because a lot of the animals were no longer there so we decided to head back to the hotel to get a good nights sleep for the early morning meeting.