Honeymoon Day 8: Destination #4 to #5

If you watched the video in the previous clue, you saw that we were going to the Door County Maritime Museum. Troy sponsored them for part of the day, so we got our names on their board and we got a personal tour (with our own docent, which is apparently a fancy name for 'tour guide') in the tugboat they restored. So, after having breakfast and checking out(which was HUGE and AMAZING; seriously, you have to go to this place, it's fantastic), we headed to the museum. We met up with Bob, our tour guide at the tugboat. The tour was really cool. Apparently they spent 5.5 years restoring this tug and just opened up to the public in August. Bob actually worked on the tug for 20-some years when he was younger. He knew everything about it and told us a lot of stories about working on it. Troy could probably give more information about it, but it was really neat.

After the tug tour, we walked through the rest of the museum. My favorite part was the exhibit about the huge storm in November 1913 that sank a ton of ships in the Great Lakes. Troy and I scuba dive and one of the ships our friend John took us to, the Regina, sunk in this storm. They had a ton of things from the Regina on display. It was really neat learning so much about the history of this storm.

After that, we had lunch at a local pizza place before heading to our next destination. Before we left for the maritime museum, Troy had given me my next clue: http://tr.im/26w0. We were going to Milwaukee! My friend Rosie made this clue, she grew up in Milwaukee. The place she described that I needed to take Troy to was Kopp's. It's this FANTASTIC burger and custard place on the north side of Milwaukee. When I was in college, every time we drove through Milwaukee we would stop at Kopp's; Rosie introduced me to it. Their cheeseburgers are HUGE and amazing. And the custard is just wonderful, way better than Culver's.

After Kopp's, we headed to our hotel: Hotel Metro. It's in downtown Milwaukee. We pulled up to the hotel and asked about parking, but apparently they do valet. Neither of us have ever had valet before, and I was quite hesitant for Troy to hand over the keys: we have 2 Wii fits in our car!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sure they're safe though :) We checked in and went to our room, which is fantastic. It has a fireplace and jacuzzi :) Unfortunately, the fireplace went out not long after Troy turned it on, so they were going to move us, but weren't able to find another room. They fixed it once, but then it went out again. We decided we didn't want to move, so they took $20 off our room each night. We went to the bar and had some dinner (we'd only shared 1 cheeseburger and some custard at Kopp's, so we were both a little hungry) and drinks. Margaritas were on special, so I got a Melonrita; it was delicious.

After that we just went up to our room and Troy gave me my 'arrived at my destination' clue: http://tr.im/26w1. Included in the envelope were tickets for The Christmas Carol on Tuesday night. We're staying in Milwaukee until Wednesday morning, when we'll head to our final destination. After watching the clue, we both read a little bit before going to sleep. Another pretty relaxing day!