Chateau Lanisimo Part Deux

So when I left you last, we had just finished our tour of the Joseph Huber Brewery, now the Minhas Brewery.

We went around the corner in Monroe to this bar/purveyor of cheese called Baumgartners. Look at this mural done by one of the local school teachers. Pretty cool.












What legit Wisconsin bar would be complete without a deer head on the wall? Smitty came out of the bathroom about 2 seconds later.















Finally the whole gang got together in Lodi at Fitz's bar and grill. Ricardo and Manual Labor Mike, both on the left, finally caught up to us. MLM was at his mother's in Elgin and Ricardo picked him up there. They made it to the Belvidere Oasis before MLM had to stop and go to the bathroom. We all had a laugh....it's like 10 miles.








At the bar at Fitz's...waiting for the table pictured above. Smitty, Bear Bill (he's hairy) and Ricardo.











LCJ and MLM.


















And clearly the highlight of the evening, the lovely and bodacious Amber. Stop in and say hi if you're in the hood. She's very friendly.
















After dinner, we headed back towards the Chateau...remember, it's still Friday evening!! So to get there, we can either go around this huge lake, or take a free ferry across. The ferry is very efficient and takes only a few minutes to load, cross and unload. At 11 on a Friday night, it's even quicker!

It wasn't just the ferry that was loaded by this point!!











Here's the ferry unloading with Ricardo's car ready to get on the boat. Too many lights!!!











So part of the reason we went up to the Chateau was to split wood for the next year. Here is the fruit of our labor on Saturday. This shed is 6' high, 8' long and four rows of wood deep. That's a lot of wood!! We also had to move the fresh wood to where we took this wood from, so it can age for a year and get split next year. Exhausting work even with a gas powered splitter.








Ahhhhhhhhh...........











Tomorrow, more pics from the weekend and LCJ answers the question: did I survive the smoked filled Chateau? Ricardo answers the question: how many packs of cigarrettes can he smoke?? MLM answers the question: how can he get out of work AND how many BAD cigarrettes can he smoke??? Was Bill shaved and his body hair turned into a rug? How many times did Smitty moon the rest of the cabin and why do his pants have trouble staying up????