Interview and Go

We slept late on Wednesday morning and then walked 1/2 mile to an nice cafe where I had baked oatmeal. Interesting taste!

Our interview with Homeland Security was at 11 am. We got there early and were finished by 11 am. They took our picture and scanned our finger prints, explained the program and gave us our membership number. Done!  Now we have expedited entry thru immigration and if we fly in USA we can bypass some TSA checks so no more removing shoes and taking off all my jewelry to get scanned. 

We walked along the Riverwalk to the Old Third Ward district where we had lunch and did a small amount of shopping. We walked out to the lakeside and around the art museum but we are saving going into any museums until tomorrow when it is supposed to rain all day. 

After walking almost 7 miles we took a nap before going out to dinner. Our dinner was at Sanford's where we had a fabulous meal of scallops and salmon with a caramel, banana tart for dessert. 

We were so depressed that the Cardinals lost that we stayed in for the rest of the evening. 

Milwaukee, WI

In order to expedite our passage thru immigration on returns from our travels out of the country we applied for a Global Entry pass. To get this pass we had to go thru an interview process with Homeland Security at one of many airports in the country. We chose to go thru Milwaukee since we could get the interview quickly and because we had never been to Milwaukee. 

We flew up on Tuesday afternoon so by the time we got to our hotel it was supper time. We got our room, turned on the A/C (as the room was hot) and then headed to Maden's German Restaurant. We had a nice meal at this famous and old icon of Milwaukee. 

We expected a cool room when we got back but that was not the case. We called the front desk and they sent up an engineer who could not fix the A/C.  So at 11pm we moved to a new -- and better-- room!  We have a corner suite with great views of downtown. I suspect we could see the lake if it weren't for the clouds and fog.