Summer Vaca ’09 – Day 3

Two words for you – food poisoning. We checked in at the Radisson – Pewaukee Monday night and immediately went to eat supper at the Thunder Bay Grille. Our hotel package included $40 FREE dinner there. The kids were both kind of…energetic. Well, okay. They were crabby. Tim and I both ordered fish. After the fact, the only thing we could figure was that it was undercooked. Blah. We did okay until bedtime, then we started feeling badly.

I connected to the Internet and did some blogging, and Tim started the movie the was also included with our room package. I should mention that the hotel charged us for the movie, and we had to go down to the desk the next day to get it taken off the bill. They tried to do that to us the last time we stayed there, so we were smart enough to check.

Did I mention that there was no remote control in the room for the TV? It’s kind of difficult to order a (free) on-demand movie without a remote… So, we finally get the remote control. The TV freaked out on us. The volume turned itself all the way up. We could not get it down, nor could we turn off the TV. What was with this hotel?!?!

Calgon take me away! No such luck. So, I was really looking forward to my shower at this hotel. It has a fancy shower with two shower heads. Pretty cool, right? Yeah, it would have been cool if they had both been working.

Breakfast was a joke. Where is Gordon Ramsay when you need him? He would have cussed the cook our of the kitchen for sure. I couldn’t eat anything except a bowl of Rice Krispies because of the whole food poisoning problem, and Tim attempted eggs which was a joke. The lady cooking at the egg station had absolutely no clue what she was doing. I could hear her complain to the waiter when he was getting her after Tim requested an omelet. Later on, she called the waiter out of the kitchen to come look at her eggs. She wanted to show the guy that the yolks looked like a smiley face. Give me a break.

The nicest thing I can say about the hotel is that the Kleenex was soft. Since we were feeling like we’d been run over by a dump trunk, we waited to check out at noon. With nothing to do until the ballgame at 7:00, we attempted lunch at Culver’s. Tim did okay, Isaiah did well, Mallory slept, and I was throwing up in the bathroom. Puking in a public place on vacation is always so much fun. Note the sarcasm. We didn’t last long at the Johnson Creek outlets, either, so we just drove back to Milwaukee. We did a little better at the mall in Brookfield.

Isaiah and Mallory sure enjoyed themselves! We went to Barnes and Noble to let Isaiah play with the Thomas the Train set. We got Mallory out of her stroller, so she could watch him. We’re at this Barnes and Noble in Milwaukee, and they have two train engines, Thomas and Percy, and Harold the Helicopter out for kids to play with. Are you kidding me? Our Barnes and Noble keeps about 30 trains out for kids. There was another little girl and boy there, and Isaiah shared much nicer that those kids. The other little boy kept saying, “Mine! Mine!” He sounded like one of the seagulls in Finding Nemo.

We nibbled at our food at McDonald’s before the game. I did much better here. A grilled chicken snack wrap turned out to be a good choice for an upset stomach.

We got to the game at about the same time they opened the doors. We turned in our BP vouchers for free tickets to a game in September and bought tickets to see the Cards play the Brew Crew again in Milwaukee on Labor Day. (We will be canceling our Radisson – Pewaukee reservations for that trip!) We were on the Club Level for this game, so getting in was easy. (There’s a separate entrance that you can use.) Our seats for this game are probably the best we’ll have all year. We were directly behind home plate. Compared to the ticket prices at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, these were a really good deal.

Both kids fell asleep just before the game. They woke up in time to see most of the game, though. What a lively bunch we were!

Here's our view without camera zoom.

Isaiah was so cute saying, “Baseball, yo!” Mallory was quite the charmer for the people sitting around us. Guess what she did??? She clapped her hands! One day shy of turning 6 months old, too. I think we have a little bit of it on video. She did it really slowly, but it was too cute.
We left around the 8th inning. Our hotel was a Comfort Suites in Delevan, WI, so we had to drive about 40 minutes outside Milwaukee to get there. We arrived around 10:30, and immediately went to sleep. We were tired from feeling so sick all day long! Hopefully, our tummies will hold up better tomorrow…

- becky