Joe and I flew to Oshkosh, Wisconsin for the Quilting and Sewing Expo held at Fox Valley Community College. It was an excellent event. Show organizer, Marie Thull, did a fabulous job organizing the event. Marie holds this event through the continuing education program at the college. To find out more about the show go to http://www.fvtc.edu/public/NewsDetail.aspx?Id=312
If you live in the area I would say it is definitely worth your time to go and if you don’t live in the area you should plan to attend.
One of the best things about traveling to quilting events with Joe is that we rent a car and see the area. We asked some locals what they would recommend we see and do and we got lots of recommendations.
Everyone said, “You must go to the EAA Museum”. We said, “OK”, having no idea what EAA stood for. It stands for “experimental aircraft association”. To find out more about the museum go to http://www.airventuremuseum.org
And we all know Wisconsin is known for it’s cheese so while I was teaching one day Joe made a trip to check out some cheese at the Colonial Cheese House located in the historical town of Ormo. He met Jennifer Jordon, the proprietor, and learned about cheese making. You can check out their website at http://omrocheesehouse.com.
Joe had cheese shipped home since there was no room in our luggage. Well, all of you cheese heads are right….the cheese is excellent…especially the cheese curds.
There were two places in town that make their own chocolate and both places came highly recommended. The first place has been making goodies since the late 1800s and was called the Oaks. Their website is https://oakscandy.com
And the day before we visited the other chocolate maker, Hughes’. The store is in the basement of a house. The basement is rather small, but oh so quaint. Only about 4 customers could fit in at one time. The sign in the front had my attention…..OYSTERS. Why would they have oysters at a chocolate shop?
Unbeknownst to me they make a candy called “oysters”. Of course we had to buy some. I must admit they were so very tasty. It was a vanilla cream or chocolate cream ball dipped in chocolate and covered with crushed peanuts pieces. Excellent would be more like it.
I understand the line goes down the driveway certain times of year….like Easter.
I love their website name https://www.mailmechocolates.com
I can honestly tell you that I liked the chocolate from both places.
Next on our list was Ardy and Ed’s. A delightful woman named “Sheila” who we met at a local store told us, “You have to go there. They make their own root beer”. So, off we went to Ardy and Ed’s. And the root beer was really, really good.
As we drove around town looking for some of the recommended places we stopped to look at the crazy people who drove on the ice and fished on lake Winnebago. Joe wanted to drive out onto the ice in our rental car and I said there was no way I was doing that. The idea of falling through the ice scared the you know what out of me.
And since we could not get a flight out until the following day after the show at 4:15pm we decided to drive up and see Lambeau Field where for those of you who don’t know is the home of the Green Bay Packers football team.
All in all a fun trip: teaching, sight seeing, and meeting some of the nicest people on earth, Wisconsinites.
The only bad thing about our visit…I gained a pound of the weight I just lost!!!!