This morning Travalon and I were enjoying our lazy Saturday too much to join the local Juneteenth parade with my Union peeps, but we did see them at the party afterwards. Guess who else we saw? Bugs Bunny and Peppa Pig!
We wanted to get some Jamaican food, but the line was long for all the food carts, so we just went to a Mexican restaurant for lunch after giving my Union peeps a ride back to the Labor Temple. Then we drove to Baraboo and went to the Circus World Museum. We pass by it all the time, and I have always been curious. We wandered around the grounds, not wanting to spend too much time inside on such a beautiful day, but eventually we did wander into the Big Top tent, where an actual circus show was going on. Was that ever entertaining! We didn't see the whole thing, but we did see people doing tricks on horseback, and one was a clown. Then we explored the circus wagon pavilion. Here are some photos. This was a little train you could ride for $5. (We did not ride it.)
Here are some beautiful circus wagons.
This is a train car advertising the circus.
And this is a little pony you could ride for $5, but we didn't want to squish it.
I love this waste recepticle!
I don't know why this clown hat has a shamrock on it.
I took these photos of circus wagons with my phone.
The part I found most interesting was a display right near the exit about priests and the circus. Due to a combination of a lot of circus performers coming from Catholic backgrounds and also the fact that the Catholic church has a mandate to try to save all souls, they had more of an outreach to the circuses than other denominations. I had no idea! Then we went to the gift shop and bought a goat.
Travalon named him Gabby after Porky Pig's roommate in old Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm not sure what happened to that character, but he complained nonstop, so maybe he never caught on with audiences. I don't think our Gabby would complain so much. He's very soft.
Our next stop was the Crane Foundation for their big fundraiser. We had never gone before, and it's not cheap, but if we were wine drinkers we could potentially have drunk the whole value. There was so much wine there! It started with little commemorative glasses full of champagne right at the door.
The flag is, obviously, from the earlier festivities. My Union peeps who had marched in the parade each had one, and when I asked where I could get one, the guy who looks like a leprechaun gave me his. Anyway, at the Crane Foundation, we went around looking at all the cranes, and along the path would be different wineries or breweries or restaurants with little samples of their goods. My favorite was a bean salad much like cowboy caviar that Travalon didn't even want to try. There were also tamales, paella, snacks, chocolates, meatballs, and pastries. Here are some photos of the cranes. I don't remember what kinds they are, so sorry I can't explain them better.
In the gift shop we each bought a journal.
Mine is the one on the left. I used some more of my gift card from the wellness program at work to buy it. By then we had gotten over 10,000 steps, but none of our walking was continuous enough for my FitBit to give me credit for a workout, so we went to Devil's Lake and took a walk along the South Shore. No photos of that because by then Travalon's camera was running low on space, but it was as beautiful as ever. He did take some videos of the circus show and the cranes, so at some point I'll try to make a YouTube video or two of that. Something for my readers to look forward to.
Famous Hat
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