Portage, Baraboo, Madison and the Mouse House

     Our poor car.  In addition to the covering of thick brown mud gracing most of it, the front of it has accumulated its own nice thick coating of smashed bugs.  Logic tells me that there is no sense cleaning it until we get home.  So, we just let the coating get thicker and thicker.  It's always good for a laugh and a comment whenever we stop at a rest area, "My God, where in the hell have you been?"
     We added two more states to our visited list, Minnesota and Wisconsin, bringing our total to 49.  The lone remaining state we have yet to visit is Oregon.  We'll have to get there one of these days.  We stopped in Portage,Wisconsin to visit our Florida (winter time) neighbors, Steve and Kathy Page. They showed us all around Portage, and Wisconsin Dels, which has the biggest bunch of water slides and roller coasters known to man.  Then we visited the town of Baraboo, the childhood home of the Ringling Brothers of circus fame.  We even got to see an elephant, wildlife we hadn't planned on seeing.

     This morning we all drove south to Madison, the capital city and the home of the University of Wisconsin badgers.  We toured the capital building...it has to be one of the most beautiful capital buildings of any state.   

      After a walk around the university we stopped at The Mouse House to buy supply of Wisconsin cheese.  Couldn't leave Wisconsin without cheese.  Take a close look at the photo and check out the noses.