Soli loves to toast and say "Cheers." Here she is saying, "Cheers" to me as we click our glasses.
Gus's Diner.
Our next stop was at John's office in Sauk City.
Tiz has often asked what John does, so now he was able to show her some of his maps.
He even gave her one to keep. She was thrilled.
The reason we chose Sauk City was so that John could join us on Monday and Tuesday night and he wouldn't have to commute for two days, a win-win for sure.
He even came over to our motel for lunch on Tuesday and ate the great continental breakfast each morning.
We stayed at the Cedarberry Inn, a very nice place.
Very kid friendly and the pool was kept at 90 degrees.
On Monday afternoon after visiting grandpa and checking into the motel.
We explored the Wisconsin River for a bit.
Tiz is doing her great grandpa Ken imitation in the above photo. My dad never passed one of those telescope things without taking a look.
Tiz enjoyed exploring the river bank. Too bad there was still such a chill in the air or we could have explored longer.
We stopped at Piggely Wiggely where Tiz and I spent $62.00 on mostly sweets.
Courtney stayed in the car with a sleeping Soli.
After John got to the motel, five minutes from his office, we all went in the warm pool and enjoyed some swimming.
Tiz impressed us with her newly learned backstroke. She owned that pool.
Soli enjoys the water, too and had fun swimming between Bumpa, mama and me.
After swimming, we ordered Pizza Hut pizza, not as good as any of us remembered it, but sufficient for dinner that night especially since we had so many sweets to follow it up.
Grandpa slept on the Murphy bed and the four ladies slept in the king bed in a separate room in our suite.
We all slept well.
On Tuesday, John went to work and we headed to the Madison Children's Museum.
It was a fun day for the girls.
There are so many hands on things in this museum, in fact Courtney and I felt like just about everything moved or talked when touched. It was almost too much.
Tiz had fun in the huge climbing structure where she met a friend named, Trinity.
They spent a long time together playing and climbing.
After the museum, we walked over to the capitol.
I have always enjoyed going into the state capitol. Loved the rotunda and still do.
Tiz was interested to see if Scott Walker was there, but when she asked a page, she told her, "I am not sure of his schedule, he is a very busy man."
I whisked her away before she could share her dad's political feeling about our governor. Her grandpa, however, has the opposite opinions of Scott Walker and thinks he is doing a fine job with our state.
Courtney and I do not have political opinions.
After the outing in Madison, we went out to a Mexican restaurant in Sauk City with John. Courtney is quite a Mexican food conisourre and she thought the food was very good. John and I had eaten there on another occasion and also felt it was great food in an authentic atmosphere.
We swam for two hours after eating. Tiz would have swum for a longer time, but we had to get up to bed. She met two boys in the pool and the three of them were having so much fun.
We all slept well again.
I got up early to have breakfast with John before he left for work.
The girls found a great spot from which to watch TV.
Courtney and I missed the men when it came to loading up the car. Neither of us is used to that task!
We left for a scenic route to Oshkosh.
We stopped at his park in Portage along the Wisconsin River.
We always stopped there with my mom and dad and then with our girls everytime we headed up north.
The girls had time for a swing.
I have pictures of Courtney and Alissa on these same swings on one of our trips to the Dells. They were about this same age, too.
Oh, the memories...
So fun to spend so much time with this happy girl.
We stopped at Green Lake to see if we could find the place where Courtney went for swim camp when she was ten years old.
After some touring, we did find the dorms she stayed in.
It was another fun trip down memory lane.
We had lunch at a very nice sandwich/sweet shop and enjoyed Ripon's cute downtown area.
We also had to find the Birthplace of the Republican party located right in Ripon.
John will be very happy with these photos.
We ended up in Oshkosh, had dinner at Cranky Pat's.
I babysat while Courtney and Paul heard a speaker at the college,
On Thursday, Courtney and Tiz went to a movie with some friends.
I put Soli in her stroller and took a very long walk.
She fell asleep at the beginning of the walk and stayed alseep for two hours.
The weather was beautiful so we went to have dinner at their drive in where the girls wear roller skates. A perfect way to end a beautiful spring day and a wonderful vacation.
Tiz and I enjoyed a jacuzzi and went to bed.
I came home today, Friday, full of happy memories.
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