Spring break, 2019. Vacaciones de primavera de 2019.
I wanted to do something, but being a grad student, I don’t have a lot of money. Most places I wanted to go to aren’t great winter places (it was still technically winter) due to snow and such. I realised I had only been through Wisconsin once as a young child and barely remembered it. I told my boyfriend I was thinking about it, and he said he could take a day off from work and make a long weekend of it. Quería hacer algo, pero como soy estudiante de graduado, no disponía de mucho dinero. La mayoría de sitios adonde quiero ir están en el norte donde había bastante nieve y tal aún en marzo. Me di cuenta que solo conocía Wisconsin de pasó cuando tenía 7 años y no lo recordaba bien. Le dije a mi chico que estaba pensándolo, y me dijo que podía pedir un día libre de trabajo y ir conmigo para un fin de semana largo.
We settled on Madison and Milwaukee. Decidimos en Madison y Milwaukee.
On Friday afternoon, we drove up to Madison, Wisconsin. Madison is the capital of Wisconsin and has a population of 258, 054. The drive took about four hours. Illinois does not have beautiful scenery, needless to say. Viernes por la tarde, conducimos a Madison, Wisconsin. Madison es la capital del estado y tiene una población de 258,054. Tardamos unas cuatro horas en llegar. Illinois no es conocido por su paisaje interesante, he de decir.
We avoided the toll road near Rockford, Ill., and I found myself on US Route 20, the road that goes by my childhood home. We eventually took a road north and found ourselves crossing the Wisconsin state line around sunset. Evitamos los peajes de la autopista cerca de Rockford, Ill., y me encontré en la Ruta Nacional 20, que es la misma carretera que pasa la casa de mi juventud. Eventualmente tomamos una carretera hacía el norte y cruzamos la frontera entre Illinois y Wisconsin al atardecer.
We arrived to Madison around 20.00 and checked into our hotel, a Tru by Hilton that reminded me of Europe’s Ibis Hotels. We went in search for a place to eat, but the Mediterranean restaurant had either closed or never existed. Google Maps isn’t always accurate. So we settled on Chile’s, a restaurant I hadn’t been to in about 13 years. It was good as I remembered. Llegamos a Madison sobre las 20.00 y hicimos check-in en el hotel, Tru by Hilton. Me acordaba de los Hotel Ibis en Europa. Buscamos un restaurante para cenar. O estaba cerrado o Google Maps nos mentió, pero no encontramos el restaurante mediterraneo. Entonces, fuimos a Chile’s, un restaurante donde no había comida desde hace unos 13 años. Estaba tan bueno como lo recordaba.
Saturday we woke up and explored the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While I loved the views of one of Madison’s lakes from the campus, I prefer my current grad school home of UIUC. We then walked toward the capitol building and visited it. El sábado nos despertamos y fuimos a explorar la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison. Aunque me gustaban las vistas de uno de los lagos de Madison desde la universidad, prefiero donde estudio ahora, la UIUC.
The Wisconsin State Capitol was completed in 1917 and is the fifth building to house the WI government. Terminaron el Capitolio actual de Wisconsin en 1917 y es el quinto edificio para servir como sede el gobierno de Wisconsin.
Later, we visited a few of the shops on the street connecting the capitol building to the university and stopped at an Espresso Royale so I could work on some stuff for class. Después, visitamos unas tiendas en la calle entre el capitolio y la universidad y paramos en Espresso Royale porque tenía deberes de mis clases.
Later, we drove through the city and ended up at Half Price Books before having a late lunch at Potbelly, a sub sandwich chain, and taking off to Milwaukee. Después, exploramos la ciudad en coche y fuimos a Half Price Books antes de comer en Potbelly (una cadena de bocadillos) y marcharnos para Milwaukee.
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Looks like you visited our town last year!
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Yes, and I loved Madison! We were supposed to visit again this year during spring break, but corona changed that
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Darn, next year, fingers crossed.
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Door County will be the first trip when this is over if I’m still in Illinois.
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Cool. If you pass through Fish Creek, make sure to stop by Sweetie Pies. They make delicious fruit pies.
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My boyfriend loves cherry pies so I’m sure we’ll stop there now 🙂
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My husband’s stepbrother runs the shop. But we have no bias, they’re the best. 😉 We bought a cooler full of pies the last time we were there!
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Qué rico 😀
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Si, verdad?
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