Day 3

To Chicago

 

The next morning while at the hotel breakfast we met a Baptist Minister from Chicago and found out why there where no spots open at Devil's Lake.  His church had rented out the entire campground for the weekend, and he was at the hotel with his family simply because he didn't like to camp or go with out TV.  I love meeting friendly and interesting people on vacations. We got to have a look around Wisconsin Dells as we waited for the cheese shop to open so that Jon could get some squeaky cheese while we were in the cheese capitol of America.  I was quite impressed with this unknown vacation spot.  The town is able to keep the small town/nature feel while still having more options to do in a week then could be accommodated.  There were water parks, amusement parks, river boat rides, and the typical vacation town shopping areas.  They even had a Ripley's Believe it of Not Museum which happened to have a car parked on the wall outside.  Aspen was very curious about it and had to go investigate with her sisters as to how the car was suspended, and was very excited as she exclaimed "I know how the did it.  It's Super Glue!"

 

Wisconsin Cheese-heads for Uncle Bruce

My favorite part of this stop though was the river and enjoyed walking along it for as long as I was allowed before we had to hit the road again.

 

The HUG ME tree!

 I wish we had started to take pictures of the odd statues and decorations we had passed while driving.  The giant cheese man  and the replica of Egyptian sculpture were cool but not nearly as fun as the skeleton man walking on T-Rex skeleton on a leash.

The last state sign-for a few days at least.

 

Yay!  We finally reached Chicago and my brothers family and were treated first thing with a walk to the dog beach so that the kids and Chalea and Cayanne could play.