We couldn’t stay in brew city too long because I’m allergic to alcohol and my face turned red just from being around all the beer in the Miller Brewery. Anyways, Madison was our next stop and the first thing we did when we got there was go to a cheese factory. The factory was in a small town outside of Madison called Plain which I thought was kind of funny because it looked exactly like its name, but who knows, there’s probably a lot going on there that I don’t even know about. So when we got to the cheese factory, we found out they stopped giving tours after Labor Day so all we could do is look through the windows and see how cheese is made. Next time we’ll be sure to call ahead of time to make certain we get the full experience. A saying we have come to know and love is; you win some, you lose some and we definitely lost this one. But life goes on and our next stop was an attraction called The House on the Rock which is a house that this guy named Alex Jordan lived in and turned into what I would call Willy Wonka’s house on drugs. The only thing we kept on saying the whole time we were walking through the house was, “This guy is a wackjob”. I guess he has the largest indoor carousel in the world, doll houses, and instruments that play by themselves and a lot of other random stuff from all over the world that I don’t even know about. It was definitely one of the weirdest things I have ever seen and we didn’t even tour his entire house. After that we cruised on down to downtown Madison where we visited the state capitol building and another Frank Lloyd Wright designed building and called it a day.

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