Art's Blog: Lake Geneva trip

We left Tuesday morning a little after 10. It was 72 and humid when we left. By the time we got to Lake Geneva is was 55 and raining. We stopped at the Geneva Inn and made a reservation for Thursday night dinner. Then we drove through Lake Geneva and on to Williams Bay. We were thinking that we would have lunch at an Italian place there that Judy Thomas had recommended but we found it was only open for dinner. We decided to try Millie’s a place that Don Matheny and Roger Hahn had recommended for breakfast. it was pretty nice – large restaurant and a few shops. I had pancakes and Jill had the country breakfast. She also found some cool sandals in, of all places, the kitchen connection. The had a lot of cool signs. My favorites were

“Sometimes I wake up Grumpy
Sometime I just let him sleep”

I didn’t ask to be a princess
But if the crown fits……

After lunch we drove into Delavan but did not stop. It was still raining and cold. We headed back to Lake Geneva and went into our favorite food place on Main Street. There was almost nobody in the place. And it was still raining. We headed for the Lodge at Grand Geneva. We have a nice room in building 6. It seems that a lot of the buildings are under renovation so we had to walk to the ground level and back up to get to the lobby.

We’re facing the parking lot; wish we had a view of the golf course. A couple of rooms that we saw facing the course when we took a walk were suites so maybe they didn’t have any regular rooms left.

Went to Ristoranté Brissago and had a great dinner. Mussels, gorgonzola salad with walnuts. Jill had Sea Bass and I had a crab captalelli dish. The food was really really good.

Thursday morning we headed into town for breakfast and had Swedish pancakes at Scuttlebuts (next to Popeye’s)

We walked around a hit some shops. No rain but cloudy and cool 55 degrees. Then we drove to Yerkes Observatory over in Williams Bay but found that it is only open to the public on Saturdays. We headed for Fontana to check out the Abbey. Had a bowl of soup there and headed back around the lake back to Lake Geneva. We hit quite a few stores and then headed back to our hotel. We drove to the Geneva Inn and had a great dinner. Jill had braised short ribs and I had an apple glazed pork chop.