Friday, June 12

On Friday, we left River's Edge, and went to a nearby Walmart to look for a new digital camera. Our last camera, a Canon 1S IS, finally gave up the ghost after almost 5 years and +10,000 pictures. We bought a Canon Powershot SX110, which has many of the same features our old camera had, but with more megapixels.
We then traveled to the nearby community of Baraboo, where we walked around the small zoo and played in the park. We also ate lunch there. Jonathan liked the black bear there. The girls liked the ducks and deers. We then went to a bakery and had a snack there. We noticed that around the corner from the bakery was a free muesem celebrating 125 years since the founding of the Ringling Brothers Circus. Barboo was the original winter quarters for this circus and has an excellent Circus World Museum where they restore old circus wagons and display many other interesting circus items. At the little mueseum, we were told that the there were some circus model builders were near the circus world museum and that it was free. So we went and say some amazing modeling. We then went to our new hotel room in the Dells where the party was going to me on Saturday. The kids played in the water park and had a great time. We all met for dinner at Pizza Pub in the Dells.