Travelboo

Sunday, May 15, 2011

will blog, have travel

she went thatta way

My first mobile post! got this up and running so I can blog on the go. nice

James and the Giant Bean

taking a picture of ourselves, mental giants that we are

One of my favorite human beings on earth is Jimmy. He has a mystical power over me and can always make me laugh.
I met him in Chicago for 12 short hours and we had a ball.
We went to Millineum park and saw the bean. We went to the cheeseborger place, Billy goat Tavern, under lower Wacker? drive (see I have to blog faster before I forget the names of things/places), we walked downtown and saw the Picasso sculpture and we went to Uno's pizza. Now Jimmy says that Uno's, Due's and Gino's east all are pretty much the same. We saw the Wrigley bldg which Jimmy says he wants to come back as in his next life. whatever. We saw beautiful Lake Michigan and then we met his great friends for insane milkshakes spiked with whiskey in some town.

Jimmy eating his favorite egg sandwich on rye with 4 million pickles

Crunchy snow

Since I haven't blogged in so long, there is no way I can go in chronological order so I will just post at random. I came to Madison in January of 2011 after the most terrifying drive of my life.
I weathered the snow quite well if I do say so myself but I did have a few misconceptions.

Until I was corrected by my pals Jamie and Steve, I called the salt that they put on the roads and sidewalk "crunchy snow". I thought is was little ice rocks/snow so I treaded slowly until one day Steve asked what the heck I was doing. I had NO idea it wasn't snow but salt. haha. He is a California dude but has been through a midwest winter before and Jamie hales from Walkerton, Indiana and is a bad ass pioneer woman.

This was my going away present from them. :) !! love it

Maison sur le roc

This is a place created by this imaginative loon named Alex Jordan. It is off of Highway 151 in Wisconsin and I seriously think it is one of the greatest attractions ever. I truly do think it should be a destination for people. My videos and pictures dont do it justice.

So let me try and explain this place. He is a collector of absolutely everything from guns to dollhouses to harlequin masks. He has the worlds largest carousel and at the same time, the worlds largest scale whale. mmhmmm
He has an entire room of mini circuses, he has a doll carousel, an organ room, the streets of yesterday are cobbled stone paths with mini little store fronts of all his collections. It is absolutely fantastical.
And the house itself if amazing. The infinity room stretches out over the beautiful Wisconsin valley and it is a structural wonder.

Did you hear that...

I think it is the brewmasters and cheesemakers of Wisconsin crying because I left the state. Or some little baby birdies looking for some worms. No worries, I will still come back. In fact, I plan to stalk Jamie and Steve most of my days off.
And Jamie and I are in love with a little robin family in front of the glorious Door Creek apartments.

I have never seen real robin eggs before. fantastic !