work tour

Ahoy,

I love going to visit K's work place. It's always so fun - it's like a combination of a botanic garden, playground and museum. All of it is so interactive. The campus is nearly 100 acres, and all of the buildings are connected indoors if you don't want to go outside. There's a treehouse, wading pond, gardens, outdoor sculptures, and it looks like construction is underway for a manmade river/lake system. Every building has a fun theme and there is an abundance of artwork everywhere. Finally, we got to show A. He was showing signs of envy at the niceties of this workplace (but really, who wouldn't?).

We made our way to Middleton, a small city near Madison for our scheduled brewery tour. First we stopped off at the local diner for a quick bite. Our server was shocked when we asked for the check sans pie. At Capital Brewery, we sampled their beer and filed in for their brewery tour. Their walls are lined with ribbons and awards of all sorts. They ferment their beer in 100 gallon milk jugs, and their facility used to be an egg packing factory - really can't get away from dairy in Wisconsin.

We went to explore downtown Madison, the capitol, and UW campus. There are many things about this area that remind me of Berkeley. I would describe Madison as what I would imagine Berkeley to be like with less pot and more bros. The UW campus has a ton of forest-land adjacent to the lake. There is an excellent running trail, woods to walk through, and they run a rental shop for water-crafts. Although the campus is quite unsightly, with dated and public facility style architecture - the rolling hills and lack of rigidity in building placement is reminiscent of the UC, Berkeley campus. State street leads up to the campus from the Capitol and it is similar to Telegraph Ave in Berkeley and has more bars. It is even complete with a plaza equivalent to People's Park. We tried probably the creamiest ice cream I've ever had here. Got to hand it to Wisconsin - they do know their dairy.  

It's always the most fun with my brother. Nobody is so my counterpart like he is.

disjointedly agog,
jt