but sadly, we didn't get any cheese curds

been saving now for over a year


let’s pack the kids, get outta here


we’ll leave behind our troubles for a week.

we’ll borrow the pop-up from phyllis and steve


just tell the boss I gotta leave


be the best week of our lives as I can tell.

we’ll take our dream vacation in the dells.

we've been back from our best week for over a week, and i only just now have the energy to form words about it. for 8 days, we whirled around in the vortex that is the wisconsin dells, what roadside america calls one of the country's most over-the-top tourism meccas with

"a steamy, miles-long strip of motels, tourist traps, and quirky attractions ... [that] seems like a ravenous snake, swallowing tourists whole, digesting their lump of vacation energy and disposable income slowly over the course of several days."

that's pretty much exactly what it felt like.

we’ll see the robot world and the water show


go anywhere you wanna go


circus world museum in baraboo.

we’ll play mini-golf at the jellystone


and we’ll finally see that house of foam


and if the kids wanna buy a t-shirt what the hell.

it’s our dream vacation in the dells.

here's a partial list of what we did:

• america's largest water park.
• america's largest water park again.
• duck boats.
• huge mini-golf (as oxymoronic and moronic as it sounds).
• circus world museum, including a full-on circus performance (an aside: there are some seriously bendy people in this world).
• mid-continent railway museum, including a train ride.
• plus the world's largest flamingo, paul bunyan and babe, a ship-shaped car wash, and dr. evermor and the forevertron.

how we missed the museum of historic torture devices, i'll never know, dammit.

and at night when the kids is all asleep


then off to the lounge for a nightcap we can sneak.

i know our lives they ain’t the stuff of dreams


but for one full week we can live like kings and queens.

so let’s board the dogs, lock the door


we’ll roll down interstate 94


be the best week of our lives I can tell.

we’ll take our dream vacation in the dells.

– "dream vacation" by the gear daddies