Today we visited Madison, Wisconsin for a while in the afternoon. We needed to get a new water filter for the motorhome and pick up a few groceries so we thought we would see some of Madison while picking these items up. In looking on the internet to see what sites Madison has that are interesting it seemed the answers centered around the Wisconsin Badger football field called Camp Randall Stadium, Cheese Curds, and the Capitol Building. Camp Randall is the home of the of the Wisconsin Badgers football team and was built originally in 1895 and as a complete stadium in 1917. The stadium today holds over 80,000 fans. The thing I find very nice about Wisconsin University is the fact that it is located in downtown Madison. This seems to make the entire city more vibrant since you see young people walking and biking everywhere carrying books and back packs. In the very heart of downtown is the next place we wanted to see and that was the Wisconsin State Capital building. It resembles the capital building in Washington, DC. These first two sites we just drove around them and didn't feel like taking any kind of tours, The last thing we wanted to find in Madison were some good cheese curds. Madison is known for it's great pub food and cheese curds is one of those foods that are served in Wisconsin restaurants, pubs, taverns, and bars. I did a little research before going into town since we only had so much time and found that one of the best places to go for cheese curds, and many other things, was Mickey's Tavern. In a recent contest they recently were voted to have the best sandwich and the best Bloody Mary. We started out with a Bloody Mary and an order of cheese curds. In my opinion, cheese curds are just like mozzarella sticks but only in a different shape. These cheese curds were about the size of green olives and were breaded and deep fried. The flavor was just like mozzarella sticks. The Bloody Mary was awesome and came with a beer chaser. In addition to the beer chaser the garnishes on the Bloody Mary included a pickled brussel sprout, a small pickled onion, a dill pickle, an olive, and a hot pepper. It was like you were eating a salad with your drink but I can understand why this drink won the contest. It was the best I have ever had just barely beating out the Bloody Mary at the Harley Davidson Museum which isn't that far from here.
Tomorrow we are off to Rochester, MN to see where the famous Mayo Clinic is located. It will be a very easy day since it is only around three hours from Madison.
Below are a few pictures taken today. The downtown sites were hard to get since things are so confined but here you go.
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What do you know I loaded Google Chrome and the Blogger lets me upload pictures where it wouldn't let me do that with Internet Explorer. Might be that the Blogger is a Google product.
This is our bartender/waitress and her 23 years worth of tats. Those aren't pants those are all tattoos except for the short skirt she has on.
