Here they just call it Frozen Custard

It's not quite as cool as say "Here the word was made flesh" for those that have been to the Holy Land and are familiar with the Angelus prayer, but the Frozen Custard in Milwaukee is quite tasty.

We'll start off with breakfast though.

Before leaving Chicago we went to mass in Lakeview and then stopped at this dinner in Old Town called Nookies. It had a real nice diner feel to it and as they describe themselves:

Nookies is a casual, American restaurant which cooks fresh, no-nonsense, wholesome food and serves it in a friendly, efficient, unpretentious, casual-but-correct manner. It is first and foremost, a neighborhood place. It
provides a yummy and affordable everyday alternative to home cooking..

And that pretty much does describe the place. Chip and I both ordered off the skillet menu and got a load of really good food. It wasn't like there was a fast order chef in the back that was churning out dishes of poorly seasoned goop, but it was really well seasoned and there was a steady crowd of people in the place on a Monday morning.

Afterwards we headed up to Milwaukee and did some touring of the city as you can see below and then had an early bird dinner at a nice German restaurant, Karl Ratzsch's, that opened I think in 1908 and has the atmosphere to prove it with the dark ambiance, dark stained wood everywhere, steins lining the walls with a number of other decorations, and some really cool chandeliers. The food there was excellent we got some brats, knockwurst, sauerkraut, potatoes, sirloin roast, and some good German beers to wash it all down with. We then walked off the birthing pains that we received from trying to clean our plates and made our way back to the hotel to fetch the GOLF cart (the official name/acronym of Chip's vehicle) and make our way north to the Milwaukee bay and get some of that Frozen Custard at Kopp's I've heard so much about. The custard was money and unlike the prices that I'm use to paying for a frozen dairy dessert it was quite a deal (under 3 bucks for 2 giant scoops on a cone). It was unanimous that the vanilla was better then the swiss chocolate, but I'm a plain vanilla guy anyways so that's almost always the case.

This morning we kept it simple, we headed out to the Cathedral of John the Evangelist where the new Archbishop of New York (Timothy Dolan) was just transferred from, and then had the complimentary hot breakfast in the hotel before hopping on the road and making our way (which we're doing right now as I'm writing this in the car) first to Madison, WI, the Field of Dreams in Iowa, and to our resting place in the twin cities.