Flat Joe in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Hi Ms. Lipsky’s class! Today Flat Joe and I went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for another adventure! The weather wasn’t great, but we still made sure to get out and around town. While I was working, Flat Joe checked out our hotel. When I finished I met him in the lobby and we went out exploring.

Neither of us knew much about Milwaukee, so we just walked around looking for cool things. We saw a big, funny looking building so we went to check it out. It’s the Milwaukee Museum of Art, where they put all the paintings and sculptures. Who in the class is good at art? If they get REALLY good, they might put their stuff up at the museum so everyone can see it!

When we flew in, I noticed that we were close to a big lake, but I didn’t know what it was called or how big it was. I found out it’s called Lake Michigan, and it is one of the Great Lakes! There are five of them total, can you name the rest of them? So we walked around until we found the lake, it didn’t take long. And guess what we found? An old sailing ship! I hope there are not any pirates around!

Flat Joe sure knows how to find cool places! He found a place called Discovery World, another museum where students just like you go and play with science experiments and stuff like that! We didn’t have time to go inside, but Flat Joe wanted me to get a picture of him with the cool spinning tops outside. Then he found the Milwaukee County Court House, which is very old and, as you can see, very big. Do you know who works at a court house and what they do there?

After a little while it was getting late and we had to come back to Washington, DC, but we had a really fun time in Milwaukee. Both Flat Joe and I hope we get to go back there someday! Take care and be good, class!

--Joe and Flat Joe