The 15th anniversary of Jersey Shore and us!

 Josh and I celebrated 15 years by going to Milwaukee to stay in the leopard print hotel room of my dreams. 

The St Kate Arts Hotel has lots of free champagne and art galleries throughout the hotel. 

Our main event was visiting the Botanical Domes. This was inspired by my favorite episode of Joe Pera Talks With You. There are three different domes; a desert dome, a jungle dome  and a show dome that was showing tulips and herb gardens. They smelled so good and the whole place was a vibe and looked like the inside of my soul. 

We celebrated our anniversary with dinner at Dons TV Repair. The martinis were 10 cents and delicious and Josh told them in our reservation note that it was our snake anniversary and the sweet server had prepared snake jokes for us all night. 

We also got a hot tip to have lunch at Barnacle Buds and it didn’t seem real until we got there and then it still didn’t seem real and it was awesome. 

Summer roadtrip ‘24 featuring Cat & Thomas

We road-tripped to Des Moines to stake out Cat and Thomas’ life there before whisking them away to St. Louis with us. Here are some highlights:

First off, Cat & Thomas have the cutest house(s) and dogs. We shopped around Des Moines (Raygun is worth the hype and has a play area for kids!) went to the Farmers Market for dinner, played with Royal and Luna and marveled at how much Thomas runs each day (it’s, like, a lot and I’m very proud of him).

Then we went to St. Louis and stayed in the coolest Airbnb (the little school) in the Soulard neighborhood. Soulard is super walkable with lots to do and has a total New Orleans Mardi Gras vibe and a lot of people drinking and driving golf carts, which is apparently a thing there. Our Airbnb came with a giant dog downstairs named Skip.

We had dinner at Terror Tacos which is a feast for the eyes and tummy:

We did two main events. The first was City Museum, which was even better than I remembered! We saw a circus there and climbed through the caves and the aquarium and through all the outdoor tubes and slides too. It was exhausting and amazing. 

We also went up the St. Louis Arch. This is not an activity I would recommend. It was even more terrifying than I expected. Did you know you go up in a tiny pod? Did you know you can feel it swaying? I hated it. 

Here I am having a small panic attack and holding onto this beam like it will save me.

Some people liked this small pod. Most did not.

The boys looked out the scary arch windows and seemed to enjoy their experience.

Finally, we tried to go to the zoo but it was too busy there so we went to a graffiti wall instead and that was chill.

Overall another Witt-Bachman adventure success. We are so grateful Cat and Thomas could join us and we love them so much 💕💕💕