Tour of Dairyland

After visiting with my folks for a few days I picked Sean up from the Chicago airport and headed to Milwaukee to race in the Tour of Dairyland.  The race series is 10 days of racing in various towns around the Milwaukee area.  Sean raced well getting on the podium many times...he won a lot of coffee.  The races in Wisconsin, both Dairyland and Superweek, attract the best Master's racers in the country, which made for great finishes and fun competition for Sean.  We stayed with a great host family in Brookfield and was able to enjoy the local Greenway system in town.  We swam in Long Lake at the Kettle Moraine State Forest after the Greenbush road race.  The forest and lake were beautiful, with minimal uggies in the water, enabling me to swim and touch the bottom!  One of our favorite parts of traveling is eating at great restaurants.  You can see below we found a great breakfast spot, where surprisingly at 8am we were the only ones not drinking fancy OJ Mimosa's or beer.   We thought for a moment we had AM and PM mixed up, but I guess its part of their culture.  They had a delicious eggs benedict, something hard to find the southland.  Another night we had dinner with David Forkner at a vegetarian/vegan restaurant, which was amazing!  We had a great time and miss many things about the Midwest, including the beautiful rural farm landscapes, friendly people, and cool weather.  We head back to Indiana to visit family, friends, and partake in the July 4th festival until next week when it's back to work!