This weekend the blue grass band that Jeremy is in played a barn raising party in Oneida, WI. Oneida is just southwest of Green Bay, so we decided to check out Green Bay with Kent and Ellie (Jeremy's bandmate and his wife) before the show.
Green Bay reminded me a lot of Erie. It has a bay. There are two brewaries. There are trains that run through each. The size is pretty much the same - around 100,000 people. And get this, both cities have a small amusement park with a cool wooden roller coaster.
Being from western PA and cheering for Steelers, we always get crap for now liking the Packers. So of course we stopped to point at Lambeau Field. Jeremy got his picture taken while rambling on in Pittsburgheez about how we should have won the superbowl. It wasn't at all what we had expected, but it was very nice. Not nearly enough Packers stuff in peoples yards as I had anticipated, then again it is the off season.
After going to see Lambeau, Ellie lead us downtown to a cafe she used to work at call Kavarna. Kavarna is the Czech word for coffee shop! We had a delicious lunch there and picked up some even more delicious peanutbutter ricecrispy bricks before heading over to one of the local breweries. It is clear that the downtown does well, as there where shops or cafes in every window.
Green Bay is home to two breweries: Hinterland and Titletown. Hinterland is sold in Milwaukee, so we decided to try Titletown. Jeremy has their Pilsner and gave it too thumbs up.
Our last stop before heading to the blue grass show was Bay Beach, which is Green Bay's amusement park. This was my favorite part of our trip. Jeremy and Kent went on the Zippen Pippen, which just so happened to be Elvis' favorite roller coaster. Build in 1912, it was relocated to Green Bay in 2010 from Memphis, TN. Cool.
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