milwaukee public market

I love spending time with my family and discovering new places...

Good question! 

This was the first time any of us had been to the Milwaukee Public Market...

My adventure crew...Aunt Suzie, hubby Brian, and Mom...

Tons of spices to choose from...

And wine...yes, please!

We had a wonderful lunch from The Green Kitchen.

I had herbed egg salad on multi-grain bread.

After we walked around the market and bought some food items,

we headed outside for a walk through the downtown area.

These girls certainly were having a good time!

Spied an Anthropologie store and exclaimed, "I have to go in there!"

I love looking around in this store, but I didn't buy a thing.

Talk about over-priced! And all the clothing items I looked at were made in China or Vietnam.

Same with the jewelry and most of the dishware.

Walking around the store, we realized that people get caught up in the atmosphere

and design of the store. These designers know exactly what they're doing.

It's all about marketing, folks. Didn't fool us one bit though. 

My mom did find a packet of cookbook bookmarks for a good price,

and knowing I use little Post-It flags in my cookbooks, she bought these pretty

bookmarks to save for my birthday in August. I pretended I didn't see her buying them. ;-)

You'd have to know us ~ we are Goodwill shoppers. (Not Anthro!)

We thrive on finding designer clothes, purses, and home decor

at bargain prices. So when we spied a Retique store (a really cool Goodwill boutique),

we just had to go shopping in there. Aunt Suzie and I found some clothing items,

but not my little mommy. Isn't she so cute and tiny for age almost-72?

Oh, she's going to kill me if she ever reads this, lol.

So, tell me...when was the last time YOU did anything for the first time?