Tuesday in Oconomowoc

Usually I have Fridays off of work, but a coworker who also works 80% time wanted Friday off this week, so I took yesterday off instead. Travalon and I went to visit his mother and played a rousing game of Scrabble with her. Then we went to the antiques mall in Oconomowoc, and can you believe that they had more Cleveland-themed stuff there than the one in Madtown? We found a Browns pennant and an old Ohio license plate. All we found at the one in Madtown were Ohio roadmaps and a little figurine of Satchel Paige, a well-known Cleveland Indians player. At the moment Travalon and I are kind of Browns fans, not more than we are Packer Backers, but they are our other favorite team because they are so awful that it is kind of awesome. They weren’t always this way; they used to be really good, but the team itself was sold to Baltimore and became the Ravens, so they had to start over with an expansion team, and they have never really been good since then. The last few seasons they have been downright awful, winning one game in 2016 and none in 2017 – a perfect season!

After all that antiques hunting, Travalon and I just wanted a craft brew, but Sweet Mullets is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, so we went to a place in downtown Oconomowoc called the Crafty Cow. Alas, they did not have any Sweet Mullets brews on tap, but I did have a delicious cranberry lambic (called “Cranbic,” fittingly enough) made by New Glarus Brewing, and they had wonderful big soft pretzels with beer cheese dip. We managed to get back to Madtown just in time to play in the trivia game at Club Tavern, and once again Taco Tuesday: The Musical was edged out by the Red Team. The second place prize is a $20 Club Tavern gift card, so hey – free tacos! This week AND the next time we go! Probably not next week, since there is no trivia, and our plan is to go to Liliana’s for Mardi Gras. It’s more authentic, even if Club Tavern claims they will have jambalaya and Cajun music. The best Mardi Gras party in town that I have been to is actually at the German restaurant, but that is kind of a weird concept. Mardi Gras at a German restaurant? It’s like having to go to Oconomowoc to find decorations for your Cleveland-themed party.

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