On June 13th we departed for our annual trip to Milwaukee to see the Brewers and Twins play.  For the most part it is a group of friends from high school who still make the trip each year.  This year Amy decided not to come (after having joined us and having loved it for the last several years) and my friend Dan Gieseking had to bail at the last minute which was too bad because it's always a good time with Dan.  This year's attendees were me, Joe, Phil, Will, Toby and a couple of Will's friends met us in Milwaukee and they turned out to be really cool dudes.

We left Friday morning and after about an hour on the road we received a call that 94 was flooded over and the detour was horribly backed up so we decided to make our own detour and turned off highway 94 and headed into small town Wisconsin.  We winded our way through Wisconsin and finally made it to Milwaukee after about 7 1/2 hours (normally it takes around 5) which seemed horrible until we learned that it was taking people 10 hours to get their via the official detour.  The official detour is 113 miles out of the way and they have no idea when the flooding is going to reside.  Wow.

So we partied up in the parking lot and had a good time and made our way into the game and the Twins proceeded to kick the Brewers butts but even a buttkicking in Miller Park is better then anything at the Dome.  We stayed and grilled in the lot for a couple hours after the game and then I had a pretty eventful  night at the bar with Toby that I won't get into but lets just Toby may have more fun with a better wingman such as Dan.

Saturday we made our way to the Miller Brewery tour which I had seen before but Will and Joe had not.  The best part of the tour is the free beer but it is pretty amazing how much beer they produce.  We love our beer in America.

Here is a video taken of some of the finished beer heading off to be packed and shipped.


We then made our way to the game and partied in the parking lot for a few hours again and then once again the Twins beat the Brewers.  Branyan hit a homer off Nathen in the 9th to tie it and it looked like Prince had hit a game winning homer in the 10th but the umpires missed the call.  After the game we had a good time in the parking lot again and then we proceeded back to the hotel and played cards.  I took second in our texas hold-em tournament.

On Sunday we woke up bright and early for breakfast at Denny's and then made our way to the stadium for even more grilling.  This year I mixed it up a bit so on one day we had burgers/brats and on another day we hadpork chops and bbq chick and the last day we had steaks and sausage.  After the games we made turkey dogs. 

The Brewers finally won on Sunday so I didn't have to deal with being swept and then we decided to drive home via Green Bay which added 2 hours to the normal trip but it seemed faster then the detour or the slow wind through rural Wisconsin.  Toby wanted to stop at Lambeau field because he had never seen it before and there were no arguments from me of course.  It was cool being in both Lambeau Field and Miller Park on the same day.

Here are some photos from the trip.

In the parking lot.  Shocking to see Toby double fisting.


Joe from our seats on Friday.  We once again had front row outfield seats for all three games which are just awesome.


A pretty picture of Miller Park from the outfield with a painted sky shining through the Windows.


Amy couldn't make it so I took a couple of pictures of her favorite player Carlos Gomez.  He's not much of a dresser with those long baggy pants but he's fun to watch.



After the game:

Proof that it's a small world:


I need to get this bus but I need it to say High Life light.


Here I am in a glove.  I have cotton candy so all is right in the world.


Joe, Toby, Phil, and Will:


Will and his buddies:


Check out this picture (stolen from Rachel) and you will notice that they seem to be confused wearing Twins gear one day and Brewers the other.


I have a new camera with a longer lens so I was able to get some pictures that I normally wouldn't from the outfield.  Here is Prince bating:


Also handy for finding cute women in the crowd.  Check out this cute mom with her two kids.


Self portrait from our seats on Sunday:


The Sausages getting ready to race:

Here are a few pictures from our stop in Green Bay: