Our plane to take us to the promised land!
A result of boredome in the airport in London.
Our state capitol building, hurray for Madison!
A view of State Street from the Capitol.
Inside the Capitol rotunda.
Looking up into the dome of the Capitol.
A mosiac in the rotunda.
A nice lamp.
Another nice lamp ;)
Ceiling lights with directions.
The marble floor design in the Capitol.
A kid really taking in the view above!
Statue outside Capitol.
Statue and Capitol together!
Chairs behind the Ratskeller at the Memorial Union, Madison.
Red Gym, Memorial Union Terrace, Madison.
The lake frozen over, Madison.
A girl on the lake - a freak warm day in Madison.
Skyline of lake in Madison at the terrace.
Frozen lake - you can walk out on it!
View of the lake.
Crack in the lake - not deep enough to fall in.
"Tide of ice" breaking at the memorial union.
People enjoying the frozen shore.
State Street and the Capitol at night.
The new Overture Center dome at night.
My mom's cat, Abby!
Playing chess at home.
My mom thinking hard about her next move.
Milwaukee County Domes - I just had to post some of the photos I took there - enjoy!
Train exhibition in one dome - typical garden flowers and cartoon exhibits.
Choo-choo!
Loony Tunes baseball
My favorite flower, the pansy, close-up.
I have no idea what cartoon character this is supposed to be, but it was so funny!
Closeup.
so many trains between the flowers....!
Desert dome flower
I think these were called baby's fingers....I really don't want to see the whole baby if that is the case!
Closeup of aloe vera.
Succulent in the desert dome.
Bird of paradise, desert dome.
Ornamental grass, desert dome.
Weird flowering plant, desert dome.
Cool cottony-cactus!
One of these things is not like the other...
Desert dome flower.
Orchids - love this pattern!
Couldn't resist this one - a fern named after my home town! (well, probably just a coincidence)
Waterfall and flowers in the tropical dome.
Flower of the tropics.
My mom at the domes, just smelling the flowers!
My mom's house.
My brother at home.
A visit to the Jelly Belly factory near my mom!
A WW2 submarine that the allies captured from the Germans exhibited at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
"Arms over your head!" Part of an escape boat from the sub.
Chicago skyline (ahem, taken from our car, with car blocking part :( ).
Storm clouds driving out of Chicago.
Beautiful evening sky outside of Chicago.
My favorite breakfast from Denny's on our trip!! Hmmm...
Inside the Milwaukee Art Museum.
The "Brise Solei" - top of the Milwaukee Art Museum that opens like a whale's tail at museum's opening, and closes when the museum does.
An interesting angle of this sculpture at the museum.
Milwaukee's skyscrape - fog was setting on the skyscrapers downtown.
A peaceful lake in Iowa.
Sunset at a park in Iowa.
Me and Heidi at a pub in Iowa.
Monkeys at the Racine Zoo.
A prairie dog - I love how they stand up and look around like that!
Lake Michigan, from the Racine perspective.
My dad and I at the zoo, Lake Michigan in the background.
Welcome to Wisconsin - this was in a fancy hotel/convention center near my hometown.
In the butterfly garden at the Milwaukee Public Museum - a new exhibit where they fly all around you!
From the Old Milwaukee town setup at the Public Museum.
I remember this scene setup from my childhood - the native Americans attacking the poor buffalo.
A nice beaver - it's not a live one, btw.
My dad and his girlfriend Tina where they got their new car.
One of our old but functional tractors!
Our 2 gas tanks for tractors....and lawn mowers!
Jan in my dad's shop.
On our farm, entrance to the barn.
A shed and barn on our farm.
Tractor shed, silo, barn - my roots!
Our silo - not allowed to climb it as a kid, but very tempting...
My grandpa's house on our farm.
My grandpa in his porch.
My grandpa.
Old cow stall in our barn.
A dear track along the field.
A corner of our field - frozen-over water puddle.
Sunset leaving our farm.
