Champagne Brunch, Lake Geneva, WI

I'm on a boat!

Tuxes optional.

 Not with T-Pain, though, but definitely a few flippy-floppies in sight.

The boat for our trip was via the Lake Geneva Cruise Line, where we took my parents on a Champagne Brunch tour on Lake Geneva, the summer home to many of the wealthiest Chicago industry titans in history and their families (Wrigley, Maytag, etc.).

Our family- not titans of industry.
Two previous dinner cruises (one for a conference and one that Jeff and I took for an anniversary trip), made me confident that this was the perfect day trip to take with my parents.  It was, until we arrived at the dock and it was one of the windiest days of the summer.  My mom wasn't too keen on going out in those conditions, and I couldn't blame her because of our last boating experience, which I might blog about one of these days.

This was a mighty solid boat and we went out anyway and it was stable enough to serve us Bloody Marys, champagne, coffee and orange juice without a drop spilled.  The buffet brunch had something that everyone liked.  The centerpiece was the entrancing commentary about the history of the houses...

One of many stunners.

...how many rooms, how much it originally cost to build or recently sold for, and the drama over architectural styles and property lines.  All the homes have docks and many of those housed gorgeous boats, which we could see easily from our table-side seat.

During the just over 2 hour tour, we waved at other boaters and boggled over the luxury estates, and some of the best-situated summer camps I have ever seen - built there before the area became fully developed.

I hear the mailboat cruise is extremely popular, which features mail delivery where the mailperson jumps off the boat (which keeps moving) he/she delivers the mail and then jumps back on the (moving) boat.  Maybe next time!



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