We passed Frank Lloyd Wright's home, Taliesin, and took a look around the Visitor's Center, but decided the $50 they wanted per head for a tour was a bit much. What a gorgeous spot along the Wisconsin River.
How can you come to Wisconsin and not check out a cheese factory? We found a small one with a tour and had a great time. The Cedar Grove Cheese Plant makes all sorts of cheeses and we got the whole rundown.....and bought out the store for lunch. Ahhh...squeaky cheese.
Our last stop of the day was in Bariboo, Wisconsin, the home of the Circus World Museum. Now this place was a winner. All that you would ever want to know about the circus through history, and then some more on top of that. Bariboo was the winter home of the Ringling Brothers Circus for many years before they merged with Barnum & Bailey (you may be wondering why they would choose Wisconsin to spend the winter - the Ringling Brothers were from Bariboo). The Museum's collection of restored circus wagons is impressive - obviously nothing like it anywhere else in the world. TRIVIA QUESTION (from our Circus World visit): Where did the term "Siamese twins" originate? First one to answer correctly gets a package of Jelly Bellies mailed to their house. It pays to read completely ALL the sections of the Miniarms and KR-Rex blog.
We made a short stop in Wisconsin Dells. An interesting place. Sort of like a Branson on water park steriods. If you want to know what I mean by that, google Wisconsin Dells and check it out.
We stopped along the freeway so that KR could have a photo op with her namesake town.
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Chang Bunker and Eng Bunker (May 11, 1811–January 17, 1874) were the conjoined twin brothers whose condition and birthplace became the basis for the term "Siamese twins." They traveled with P.T. Barnum's circus for many years and were billed as the Siamese Twins; due to their fame and the rarity of the condition, the term came to be used as a synonym for conjoined twins, although in recent years the term has fallen out of favor and is considered a pejorative term
You so googled that Matt.....I believe I was on the phone with Sharon when Mom was out getting that photo with her Merrill sign. All she could talk about was how there were probably snakes in that grass and she ran back to the car.
You're just jealous you didn't Google it earlier. Don't worry I'll let you have a few of the Jelly Bellies.
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