Which day? Birthday and Segway.

 

We spent three days down in Milwaukee this week while the cats went to their country villa outside of Eleva, Wisconsin.

Here’s Ravel looking dirty after rolling around in the dirt.

Sue saw her high school friend Pam who lives in Bay view. We met up with some of the Eau Claire crew at La Perla for dinner, saw Pete and Katie, and here we are with Dorene at a coffee shop near Tech high School (which now has a different name).

We golfed with Diane and Mom and then the next day took Dorene out for her first ever Tour de Segway on the Milwaukee waterfront.

After watching a ten minute video about all of the ways you could hurt yourself or others on a Segway, we saddled up. here is Mom nervously ready to climb on her hog. That’s Nick, our guide outfitting everyone. There were eleven segwayers on the tour.

The trick is to not try too hard. You just get on and let your intuition do the work. Nick told us, “People on bicycles will hate you and walkers will want to be you!”

Nick told us to push either your heels down or your toes down to move backwards or forwards but everyone I talked to thought it was easier to just lean forward or backwards.

We zipped along the lakefront by all of the landmarks down there including Summerfest, the Calatrava wing of the art museum, the War Memorial, and the harbor inlet light house. Nick gave us the tour spiel cracking as many jokes as he possibly could. I reused my line from the first time I rode a Segway in Texas telling some little kids, “We’re from the future.”

We even rode on the narrow wooden walkway that encircles the Discovery World museum.

And here we are on the plaza in front of the Miller Pavilion. We had a fun time. Happy (early)  71st Birthday Mom!