Day 4 Milwaukee

It hasn't stopped raining since we got here.  Andrea is bummed because she had a picture of us walking 4 to 5 miles a day and it isn't happening. We leave tomorrow after my glasses arrive from Minneapolis ( I hope). It has been a nice stay. Steve and Jody have been great, Thalia and David have been very generous hosts and the every changing palette of grey skies has been worth watching.
Yesterday we had an impromptu visit to the Chicago Art Institute. There was a change in plans that made this the only window we had to make it down to Chicago. I am only going to make the family suffer 3 museums on the trip. Chicago, Philadelphia and the Modern in NYC. The opportunity to see Edward Hoppers Night Hawks, Ivan Albright, Seaurat, Georgia Okeefe, Arbus and the Miniature period rooms in the basement. In Philadelphia it is the Arensberg collection I want share and at the Modern it is everything.
This is all of the formal art I will subject the family to. We walked through Millennium park and saw the bean and crown fountain. It was successful trip.
We are 4 days short of a month on the road. Andrea and I have had only 2 fights of significant proportion.
One of my quests for this trip was the discovery of great pie. The chocolate-snickers-hershey-cream pie was a great one for Andrea and Lily but fruit pies are my favorite. In Pacifica, Rick Bennett of the the Salada each Cafe is a pie master. But I found a cherry pie that really rang my chimes. It was a Door County ( cherry capitol of America) Cherry pie. To start with the number of cherries in the pie was as high as the piece could support. It was packed. The corn starch or arrow root was very light it just added
a bit of continuity to the internal structure. The sugar content was exactly where it needed to be in order to coax the full flavor out of the cherries. And they cut the pie into 6 pieces so you really got a good size piece. The crust was thin and it was a shortening crust which I prefer to butter. YUM!

Lily meets Jackson P. for the first time

crown fountain chicago

Lily watches the magic sock monkey spirit emerge from Steve's bottle of wine

Andrea likes Raisin Bran but not rasins

The magic Pie!

Lily has gotten into the trip and her texting has dropped significantly. I didn't get the LA China Town sculpture  and the quality of fruit in Milwaukee is poor.
We don't know where we will end up tomorrow night but it will be East.