Old Milwaukee

I am back. Kate and I had a whirlwind trip out to Milwaukee. When we got in to DIA late Thursday night I felt like we had been gone a week. When we got back to Maxima she started like we had been gone a week.

After seeing around 15 floor plans at 8 different apartment complexes we made a decision Wednesday night. We searched around in the suburbs and downtown; to the west, southwest, and south of Milwaukee. There were positives to nearly every place we saw, but when we put everything on the table we definitely kept coming back to a nice one bedroom place south of downtown in Oak Creek. The building is new, beautiful, and it is reasonably priced for all that you get. St. Luke’s, where Kate will be starting July 9, is a 10-20 minute drive from Oak Creek. The airport is 5-10 minutes away, and downtown is just a few more minutes further north than airport. The lake is also a few minutes east.

The actual apartment is sort of overwhelming. It will be our first place as newlyweds, which is sort of weird. Kate is sort of all over her career, which is certainly not common when you are 23. We won’t be living in a dorm-like apartment. We won’t be really poor. Going out to Milwaukee and searching for places and signing a lease was all a bit of an eye opener for me. I am terribly excited to live in our new place, but there is a little bit of me that feels like we need to be living in a really dumpy apartment and we need to scrape by because that is what newlyweds do, right? Certainly, that is what we would be doing if Kate was working for the Bucks too, but she is not.