We left home about 7:30 a.m. and drove through about 40 miles of construction at 45 mph, getting into Madison at about 10:30 a.m. We walked around a bit in the downtown area before grabbing lunch at State Street Brats to get to our tour starting point by noon. Here's E and her friend waiting for their food:
We checked in at the South Union Visitors Center. L couldn't help but pose in the Bucky the Badger cut-out.
The walking tour was 90 minutes, making a complete circle around the campus. Here the tour group stopped on a hill overlooking Lake Mendota, near the lakeshore residence halls and not far from the main group of class buildings.
It's a really pretty and hilly campus, right on Lake Mendota. Fortunately, it wasn't too hot but it was definitely humid. L was at the front of the group for the whole tour. She might be sold on Wisconsin.
Here are some shots of the campus.
After the tour, we headed to the campus bookstore. They gave us a 20 percent off coupon for taking the tour so E found a pair of black sweatpants she wanted. They say "Wisconsin" down the front leg and "Badgers" on down the back of her other leg. L, of course, couldn't resist trying on one of these hats. Look familiar?
Then we walked a little over half a mile to the Wisconsin capitol which was the focal point of the Taste of Madison. Instead of buying coupons like you do at the Taste of Chicago, the Madison festival accepted cash which was really convenient and the food being offered was actually sample-sized so we could try several things.
We let the girls go explore on their own while we found some cheese curds. Andy decided to taste of cream cheese stuffed jalapeno wrapped in bacon.
We were very happy to leave Wisconsin without L buying the cheese hat she had to try on in every store we went in to. L was also fond of these overalls.
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