I started off just how I wanted, slow and steady. I wandered around Forest Park, IL's Woodlawn Cemetary to see Showmen's Rest, the memorial for dead circus folk. It includes the usual graves, but also headstones with things like "Goldie" and "Baldy", and giant stone elephants guarding the perimeter. Among the circus folk? Harry Potter. Shame he's dead too. The one's I found most interesting though, were a little more random, such as "Horsedriver" or "Unknown Male No.23". Not sure why that sounds so very poetic, but it does. So I said a poem for Unknown Male No.23 and left a stone on his grave.
Other stops today included The Cheese Chalet (purchased some Beer Kaese Aged Brick, Chicken Soup Cheese, Elk Sausage, and 10 year old Parmesan) where they keep the Limburgher in a separate case because it stinks so bad! Also, a gas station with a giant pink elephant wearing glasses. Sometimes I think I'm a giant pink elephant wearing glasses.
Dinner was at Ella's Anamatronic Deli which will give you ADD if you do not already have it. I do, so I was in no danger. Spiderman and Batman flew over my head while three different carousels (one of them human sized!) spun around. Every table was glass topped with a different themed game or toys underneath. My table had those iron shavings that you could move around with a magnet. I put fireworks behind a house and a lovely fur evening gown and dreadlocks on a man. I may have also given him a unibrow. But if I did, he deserved it.
Dinner was an app. of kugel (supposedly the very traditional kind of just sweet cream, cinnamon and noodles) and blintzes with homemade applesauce. My waitress asked if I wanted any of their famous frozen custard for dessert but I thought my lactose-intolerant stomach might explode.
I then swam back to the hotel. (See: weather reports for Madison, Wisconsin) I thought driving in the summer was going to be easy? Well, that's why I have so much built-in time, I don't have to cover any distance at night if I don't want to. I must rest chickadees, tomorrow's going to be a big day!
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