Madison, WI and nearby House on the Rock

We started this trip to the International FMCA Rally at Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday about noon. 

We spent the first night at Urbana, IL at the Tin Cup RV Park. It was still hot and muggy here.  Their ground was very dry, much in need of rain too.  We hear from Mike that Scottsburg received a little over three inches on Saturday night.  We did not drive through anything nor did we get any rain on Saturday night at the campground.

When I went out to take this picture I had to wipe the lens of the camera clean of the condensation.  It was so comfortable inside....but not so outside.

We left about ten home time and arrived in Madison about 2:30.  We are parked on asphalt.  On the end of a row of motor homes that leaves us very close to the seminar areas.  Yeah rah.  Because we failed to load our bikes on the car.  All we can see in any direction other than directly in front of us (which is a fairgrounds building) are campers.  We took a walk around last night but there have been many more campers arrive today. 

We left the Alliant Energy Center around nine local time and headed off for The House on the Rock.  We looked at the IPAD map and used the Garmin too.  IPad seems to do a good job.  I have not got it to talk to me but it does show the directions on the screen.  It was great to have it when the Garmin all of a sudden ran out of power.  I thought I had checked that but guess I didn't.  Of course, it shut off just as we approached an intersection which required a turn from us. 

I toured the House on the Rock while Jerry napped in the car and read on his book.  He had no interest in looking around the house or the collections.  These are just a few of the pictures we took at the House on the Rock and of the camping at Madison. 

We mad a Wal-Mart stop since I filled up a SD card....took some video of the carousel with 20,000 lights and not one horse head on the thing.  Lots of other creatures were there.

Then it was on to Culver's for a late lunch and ice cream.  Culver's apparently started out here in WI.  I had a great lunch.  Jerry was not so enthused.  But there was not anything left on his plate when they picked up our tray for us.  We have seen them in Columbus, IN as well but just did the ice cream thing with them there.  I had a sliced beef sandwich with WI cheese.  :0)

This afternoon we returned to the camper and just as we exited the car we found raindrops coming down.  Jerry has the awning out reading his book again.  The drops are just coming down periodically.  Nothing hard or for extended periods of time.  It was 80 degrees when we were returning from our outing this afternoon.  That was very, very nice.

Nice relaxing day!

May God Bless!