All right, what did you do on summer vacation? Well, let's find out. Uh, David, he stopped
with the pictures, put the phone away. I'll be like your school teacher. But the phone
away, I'm going to take it away and you'll get it back when the school seasons over.
Uh, it's from my blog. You got a blog? Yeah. The adventure is a David and Amy. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I think you do animation with you and your wife, right? I see. I mean,
not on, not on the ball. It's a Facebook blog. But happy anniversary. Oh, thank you.
38 years and 35 years. Make it worse than it is. Amy, do you hear that?
35 years. She's still sleeping. Well, she, uh, you're very lucky to get her. I don't know.
She's lucky, but you, you're definitely lucky. By the way, if you bumper music, I told everyone
that I made the announcement that this is going to be the David and I know I saw that.
Yeah. Morning show from now on. Yeah. I'll tell civic media getting new jingles when you're in
here. Okay. So summer vacation, I really didn't have much of a summer vacation. I did, um,
in May, we went to the Wisconsin Broadcast as association, uh, confab in, uh, in Middleton.
And then we took, uh, we stayed overnight and then we took a trip to cheese country out there.
I can't remember the Monroe Monroe and also the town before it. I can't remember what it was.
Yeah, but it was really nice. We spent the day out there. Those two town area. Yeah.
I'll come up with it now in a few minutes. Is it the one with the trolls? No. No. Okay.
I'm trying to remember how to describe it. Anyway, it was cheese country out there. Yeah.
And we really had a good time. Um, the town before that, we took a tour of cheese making.
And I can't, it wasn't Monroe. What we took that tour. Um, I'll think of it in a minute. Anyway,
so that was my vacation. We didn't do much of a vacation this year. But you on the other hand
are in a constant state of vacation. You know, it, it looks like that. But when I, when I looked
over the list, it's, we pack a lot of things in a few days. I don't know. Every time I turn on
Facebook, here's another part of the world. Well, I got to spread it out to something. Well,
Facebook, I'll put it all at one time. But like Instagram, I'm still posting pictures from
a couple of weeks ago when we were at circus world. Now, do you ever leave the country? You know,
ever been around? Yeah. I was an exchange student in West Germany back in 19, the summer of 1983
out there for two months outside of Munich. Oh, really? I still keep in touch with the family.
They visited. What grade was a couple of years ago? It was between my junior and senior year.
Well, look at you. I never knew that about you. Yeah. And it was interesting. It was a scholarship
through the BMW Corporation. They made cars and they had this scholarship program through youth
for understanding. And they would pick one student from each region of the country. If your
parents worked for BMW or a subsidiary, and my dad worked for a BMW dealership. So I applied the
first year. And I was the first runner up for this district. And if something happened to the
kid, then I would go. So I applied the next year. And lo and behold, I get this letter in the
mail saying congratulations. You're going to Germany. And the family was great. The father was
the editor and chief of the German automobile clubs, European camping guide. So he had contacts
all over Europe. And so we'd jump in the car and go down to Austrian. We'd stay at a
friend of his resort, you know, and in different things like that. Jump in the car. Let's go to Austria.
Yeah. So we just it was a good time. It was a great family. Did you speak German? A little bit.
I had two years of German, but I wasn't fluent. No need one word, but brought worst.
But what was interesting was that by the time I left two months later, I was starting to think
simple phrases in German, not sitting there trying to translate them in my mind. So I was like,
oh, I wonder if this is what it's like to be bilingual to be able to actually think in the language
or not have to try to figure out, you know, so how about these people that speak like six different
languages? I know. How did you do that? I mean, I took six years of Spanish albundigas meatballs
as a battle I remember. Really? Well, six year two in college and four in high school. So you're
not going to be telling one to the next week? No, no. You know, one of our, we had two Spanish
stations in New York and one carried the Yankees, one carried the meds. So one of our assignments was
to listen to the ball game and see if you can understand what's going on. So if you can count,
you know, to one, two, three, you can get the bases and all the names of the players are still in
English. And you could tell when there's, you know, somebody hits a flight ball somewhere or
somebody gets a hit. And we were able to, I was able to make out the game because it's, you know,
there was a play by play guys use the same phrases over and over again. It's a long one, you know,
going out there. But yeah, so that was our thinks we had to listen to the ball games in Spanish to
see if we can understand the game. So my growing up in Kanasha, a lot of my buddies were
Italian. And they were first generations. So their parents came over from Italy. They spoke
Italian before they spoke English. And my one, I, one buddy is dad would sit and watch
Spanish television, the soccer games. And, you know, the Spanish is a Latin language. And
therefore, even though it's not the same as Italian, he could understand what was going on
much easier than if he was watching it in English. Plus, they weren't really showing soccer in
English anyway. Yeah. Let's talk about your trip here. Let's go down through order. Old
world Wisconsin. Well, they're not necessarily in order by order your list here. Yeah,
unless you want to take us out. Old world Wisconsin. So we bought last year. I bought a,
that's an eagle. It's an eagle. Yeah. Eagle Wisconsin. Yeah. I went through Waterford and I went
west instead of doing the I 94 thing. So anyway, I bought a Wisconsin historical society pass.
And it was good for last summer. And this summer, it expires in October. So I almost got like
a year and a half or something out of it, which is kind of cool. And we took advantage of it last
year. And I was taking advantage of it this year, although I have not hit as many sites,
because they give you a little passport. If we hit all the sites, then you get a free membership
next year. We didn't hit all the sites. If I hit five of them, I get five dollars off at the
gift shop. If I hit, you know, so we're, we're lacking slacking a little bit, but we're trying.
And some of them are a little harder to get to when we'll get to that one in a minute. But
Old World Wisconsin was easy. Last year, I took grandson number two. He was disappointed. He was in
kindergarten. He was pre-K last going into last summer. And they had a field trip and he missed it.
And it was to a farm. So I said, Tanner, I'll take you to Old World Wisconsin. There's a farm.
He says, I want to see pigs. All right, we can see pigs. So we get to the pig in camp,
man. And there's like one or two pigs. And it smelled awful. And he did not like that.
Keep in mind, he was five at the time. And he's like, Oh, okay. So this year, we took grandson number
one and two. grandson number one didn't like all the walking. He thought it was boring.
He wanted to be playing video games. But grandson number two enjoyed it. But when there were
hands on stuff at Old World, both of them were engaged. It's a fun play. I took my parents there.
I can't get them to do chores around the house. But you know what? There was a push lawn
more. And they were both out there cutting the grass at Old World Wisconsin with one of those
pushed lawnmores. And try doing it every week in 90 degree heat. We'll see if you like it. Yeah.
Okay, Devils Punchbowl. This is in Monomony, Wisconsin. This is way up there in up north.
And no intention going to Monomony, Wisconsin. But I had a cousin that passed away a few years ago,
air out of state. My aunt lives out of state now. And he wanted to be buried at his father's
family plot up in Monomony, Wisconsin. I guess his dad's side of the family was from way up there.
So my aunt put something together and we all gathered up there in Monomony.
So what do you do in Monomony, Wisconsin? So I'm quickly scouring. Is there anything to do up here?
Because you know, we went up the day before. And I found this Devils Punchbowl. And it's this
gorge with this tiny little waterfall coming down. I'm sure if they have lots of rain,
the waterfall is much more ample. But it's just this cool thing. You go down 200 feet or so into
the gorge, you walk around. Very scenic. The kids loved it because it's outdoors. There's water
involved. There's stones. There's mud. Wow. This is interesting here. Manitouak, the Sputnik
crash site. What's that about? Excuse me. Well, I never heard of that. You know, Sputnik.
I know what Sputnik is the Russian Sputnik, but I don't know. There was crash site there.
So like two years after the Russians lost, just launched the Sputnik space shuttle.
They're not space shuttle. Spaceship. I think it was an unmanned spaceship. It came
hurling down to the earth. And the largest piece of it crashed in the middle of the street
in Manitouak, Wisconsin. I never knew that. I've been to Manitouak a million times.
So they got the craters gone now. I don't know how big the crater was because I don't think it
was that big of a piece, but they returned it to the Russians eventually. But they have a little
brass plaque in the middle of the street. And there I am dodging traffic. I felt like I was in a
game of frog. Except I'm the I'm the frog trying to be the only one who does that. I mean,
it's got to be people tourists look for it there. And I had to bribe my grandson number two
to take the picture of me in the middle of the street pointing to the spots coming.
Yes. Pointing to the spot where Sputnik crashed. Wow. You know,
have this goal of getting my picture taken with every roadside attraction. I encounter it.
Some are bigger than others, but this one may not be big in size, but
boy, it's kind of a cool thing. This is where a Russian spaceship crash. Yep. That's fantastic.
Yep. I have to go up there. I'm going to stay in the middle of the road like you did.
Oh, you know what? I forgot to add to, well, we're still on Manitouak, but this one,
remind me, I forgot to add one of our trips. I will remind you. Let's talk about the shipwreck
up in Shiboygan. What's that about? Let's talk about the shipwreck. No, no, we got to stay
in Manitouak. We got to talk about the cow. All right. Here, the way a quick story on the cow.
All right. So my grandson here in Manitouak, and we're going down the street,
and I completely forgot that Cedar Crust ice cream has a ice cream parlour in Manitouak,
where they make the ice cream, and I always wanted to go there. Well, I found out about it like
last year because they have a giant cow. And we're driving in all of us, and my grandson was in a
bad mood. He originally would not take a picture of me in the middle of the street at the
Sputnik site because he didn't want to be there. He wanted to stay with grandma, and grandma was
at a practice for her music group, but it's like, boy, you got to come with me. So we see the cow,
and all of a sudden his mood changes. He says, grandpa, that's not a real cow. I said, yes, it is.
No, it's not. He says, I'm going to run into it. If I fall down, it's a fake cow. I said,
Tanner, if you run into a real cow, you're still going to fall down. Well, I bet on my ice cream
cone. And remember, this is a giant cow with two stories tall. I showed you the picture. It was
bigger. It was, it wasn't a building next to it. It was taller than the building. So I said,
listen, if it's a fake cow, I owe you an ice cream cone, but if it's a real cow, you'll
me an ice cream cone. And he said, deal. So anyway, another one of those big things where we had to
get our picture taken. Look at the shipwreck. I want to hear about that. I don't know about a
shipwreck in Shaboyan. So the boys live in Shaboyan during the school year. They live with us
during the summer. And there's a lot of things to do up in Shaboyan. I found out beautiful harbor.
And right off the harbor is this old ship that they pulled up from Lake Michigan. It was
an old schooner. It's wood. It's dilapidated. It's not intact, but they have it all braced up.
And you can see the shape of the, you know, the shape of the schooner, but it's not intact,
obviously. And it's really just a neat thing. You know what year it went down?
A long time ago. Okay, good. Had to be in the 1800s. I think it's a pin pointing back, yes.
Had to be in the 1800s. But what surprises me is that they don't have it under glass, so they
don't have it in a museum. They have it out there exposed to the elements. It's real thick brown
wood. And well, they made them good back then. Yeah. The effigy mountains. Now, I think I know
where this is because I think we went there. The effigy mountains in the National Monument.
It's right over the river from Peridus Sheen. So a couple of miles from Peridus Sheen.
Just different than the one I think. And it's in Iowa. Yeah. So I've seen that one too,
but I'm thinking of a different one. This one has the largest number of effigy mountains
anywhere. Those are Native American burial sites. Some are burial sites. Some are just
mounds that were built probably for ceremonial purposes. Hard to say because they were built so
long ago. But the whole chunk are related to the mound builders. And the mound builders predated a
lot of the current tribes that are in the area. But beautiful park. Amy and I had been there
maybe 15 years ago. She didn't even remember being there. I didn't remember that the hike was
as steep as it was. And we're I ran into someone at the couple of ladies at the hotel. And I was
just chatting with them. And yeah, what are you going to do? And I said, we're going over to
effigy. Oh, she says that's a brutal hike. And I'm thinking, no, it's not. I've been there. Well,
15 years later, we're climbing up this steep incline all the way to the top. And at the top,
though, is where you start to see the effigy mounds. They had the little bear and the big bear shaped
ones and they had conical ones and all this stuff. But there's a beautiful overlook of the Mississippi
River. Yep. It was a hazy day though. So our picture, you know, I got white here. And I don't
know how that happened. I used to frost it. But anyway, I'm climbing the stairs. I think it kind
of blended in with the haze around. So it looks like I have no hair. But we saw Baldi go just
flying out of them out there. Yeah, it's a great river road you can take. Yeah, between
right in Wisconsin. And when you're out there, if you go to Austin, Minnesota, the spam museum now,
now people don't realize there is this. It's hormones factory, but they do have a spam museum there.
And that's where I learned to like spam. Oh, wow. But only cook. You know, it's got to be burnt.
You know, it's made out of pork. I that's fine with me. But I just I love it when it's cooked.
Really cool. And that was the only place you're able to get the spicy stuff, the hot. So
you get spam from all over the world that you can't buy here except at the spam museum. Yeah,
so we get the hot spices. Some for one of my birthdays at Christmas. I wife ordered from them.
And they sent a whole box of the, but she's got it. I can't even touch it. It's gross to touch
when it's raw. It's not good for your heart. Yeah, I know. I don't have that on. I mean, once
a year, I have it. But you handle samples there. Yeah, I know. It's really interesting. It's an
interesting place. So we planned an anniversary trip. I planned an anniversary trip for a 35th
anniversary to Prairie Dushin. And we're up in the air. I was up in the air where I was going to
take Amy and I'm having to take the boys at the last minute. So they take the long. Everything I
planned was kid friendly. But the first day in Prairie Dushin is when we went to the Villa Lewis.
And it's a Victorian mansion. And then after that, we jumped in the car and drove an hour and a half
through Iowa. And actually, Iowa was pretty scenic. Unlike Minnesota or Illinois, where it's all
flat. But it's very scenic. And we go to Austin, Minnesota. And I had this experience where I park
and like something doesn't feel right about the spam museum. The guy, the pig farmer with the hogs
is outside of the spam museum, like what I'd remembered 10 years ago. But something is off here.
It doesn't, I don't remember what the original spam museum looked like, but it doesn't look like
it. And I go inside and I said, where's the wall of spam? Because the old one had this big wall.
And it was made up of individual Kansas spam here. I'm making hand gestures on the radio so you
can see. And they're like, we don't have that anymore. And then I thought, let me ask you a question.
Did you move the spam museum? And they said, yes, a couple blocks from the old one. What year?
I don't know. But the new, the new one is laid out very nice. They have a couple of the same
things, but they have a lot of different stuff like spammy. They put them in a more scenic type of
environment. spammy is a mascot. And Tanner wasn't real happy after the ride. I think he may
have fell asleep. So he didn't want to go to the spam museum. But I kept talking about spammy.
Obviously, he turned the corner and his attitude changed. He saw spammy. He said, look Grandpa,
it's spammy. And he ran over to spammy. And we took a family picture there. They have the spam
lot cafe from Monty Python. So I sat down at the table and had a picture taken in the spam
a lot cafe. We should set you a grandson. You wanted to see pigs. Here's a can. Oh, I should
up. Should up. So the best part, they handled samples. You're walking Amy. I don't know how she
got four because I only got two, but she got four different types of spam when she was there.
And my grandson's got stickers saying, I tried spam for the first time. That was me. I tried spam.
Did you get the sticker? No, I didn't give them. They didn't give me a sticker. There's also a
picture of TV mothers out there when they opened up the spam museum. It might have been to the
new one. They had the mom from happy days. And two other, I think Shirley Jones was out there.
And I think Florence Anderson was out there. I think those were the three. And they have the
ribbon cutting ceremony with the moms out in front. So it might have been the new one.
They could have been the old one. Yeah. Go on. They won't go. Some of the moms aren't around anymore.
I know. It was a little like time ago. Yeah. Fourth district all their David Mac is everything's
going in the in your district. Looking good. It's always looking good. David Mac. Thanks for coming in
though. Thank you. Why do you get some more places? Yeah. There's a few more on the list. Yeah.
I will see. I don't think I got a lot of music to play. Hmm. I will see it's. That's why you're
the number one radio program in receipt. That's right. Because I know to play the music. You know,
when I was a kid, the radio model was shut up and play the hits. And they're very manual
song about playing the music. I make the music that the whole world, whatever. Yeah.
Thank you for coming to mother. Thank you. I love sharing. It's a pleasure to be very
curiously through your Facebook pictures and everything else. I love it. And check out our Facebook
blog. The adventures of David and Amy. Yeah. Like our page. Thank you. And they're named
sisters. Okay. Thank you, David.
