Disclosure
We made a trip to Wisconsin in the summer, mostly to visit family, but we also had fun! Here are some of the things we did:
Cedarburg Strawberry Festival
First on our agenda was the Cedabrug Strawberry Festival. As its name suggests, you'll find tons of delicious strawberry and strawberry-flavored treats from strawberry shortcake to strawberry brats.
This year, they provided a shuttle service, which I highly recommend taking advantage of, as parking can be a pain. The shuttle from Circle B was free and conveniently stopped at The Gem Shop. So, naturally, that is where we began our venture through the festival.
It was the only shop we entered, as we had plans to return to downtown another day, after the festival, when it wasn't so busy. We browsed many of the shops. Our favorite finds this year were 3D printed dragons, strawberry shortcake, and strawberry slushies.
Also, we got to see a live mermaid!
Discovery World
This was a neat children's science museum with a lot of fun things to do. The coolest activity was having a robot cut out pieces to make a foam animal. My child made a dragonfly, and I made a tortoise.
They also have an aquarium with a touch tank, but the touch tank was disappointing for our child because the animals did their best to stay out of reach. It was pretty busy, so I would suggest going on a quieter day to get a chance to touch a stingray.
If you happen to be here at noon, make your way up to the top floor! You can watch the Art Museum open its wings. We ended up missing it by a few minutes because we didn't realize you could see it from Discovery World.
Downtown Cedarburg
With the Strawberry Festival over, we made our way downtown to explore the shops. We stopped at The Gem Shop again and spent more time exploring, as it was much less crowded. There are so many cool rocks to see!
We had to stop at Ashley's Confectionery, of course, for candy! Here you can find hard-to-find candy and flavors, such as blueberry and apple gummy rings, and cherry limeade saltwater taffy.
We also made a stop at Downtown Dough, where you can find every cookie cutter and sprinkle color you can imagine! We left with a cat and dragon cookie cutter, and teal sprinkles.
My favorite shop, though, is Weeds. They sell all sorts of tea, but also have a lot of adorable knick-knacks. They even had merch for Swifties.
We finished our day by getting ice cream at The Chocolate Factory. The ice cream is sold by weight and was not expensive at all. It cost $10 for the three of us! My favorite flavor was their coffee one, which does have caffeine. We went back another day, and I tried their Passion Fruit flavor too, which was also very tasty.
Historic Cedarburg Covered Bridge
Milwaukee Public Museum
The Milwaukee Public Museum is moving, but the Downtown Milwaukee exhibit won't be at the new location, so we had to go and check it out before it was closed forever. This museum is huge and has tons to see, so definitely plan on a whole day or even multiple days to see everything.
We did miss out on seeing the Asia exhibit, as they had begun the process of packing that up and moving it.
My favorite exhibit was the butterfly house, where you can walk through and see live butterflies fluttering about. It was cool seeing them hatch from their chrysalis.
The museum is free on select Thursdays, so definitely recommend taking advantage of that.
Don't forget to grab some candy sticks from the gift shop!
Milwaukee County Zoo
The zoo had $4 tickets for the 4th of July, so we took advantage of that deal to check it out. We had hoped to see the red panada, but it wasn't out, probably too hot. We also missed the otters and the snow leopard.
We did get to see a fennec fox! We also got to see penguins being fed and a tiger chowing down. They also had a small animal show where you could meet some ambassador animals up close. They had a leopard gecko and a tortoise at the show we went to.
There were definitely lots of animals to see, so it was a pretty decent zoo.
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