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Matt

Ooops!!!

Ooops! Our email got cancelled and we lost all of our email addresses. Therefore we can't even send out a notice of our new email! Sorry, ATT gave us no notice that our account would end and we were under the impression that we would be able to keep it since our email service is through ATT wireles. grrr, very upset.

So amy's new email address is amyndiliberto@yahoo.com, we also have a gmail account matt.amy.diliberto@gmail.com, matt's email is still _mattcd@excite.com. Please send us an email so that we can get our address book full again!

Dairyland facts

Wisconsin State Fair

Last weekend we went to the Wisconsin State fair!! It was quite a big deal and everyone at work had been talking to me about it since June, so we decided we had to go. As we were walking in Matt said he didn't think he had ever been to a fair!

Cream puffs are very famous at the WI state fair, so we had to try one. They have a whole building dedicated to the original WI cream puffs!


Pig races!

Bunnies, we watched them being judged and scrutinized and then we really wanted one!

We refrained however.

The Horse carriage show was fun!

This was the grand prize winner in bonsai! This tree is 50 years old, we really liked it and decided to have a bonsai garden someday.

The forestry dept had a schoolhouse for smokey the bear and education on forest fires.

It was a fun-filled day lots of people, and vendors. There was a huge warehouse that was filled with "as seen on TV" salespeople. They were doing their whole infomercial there with cooking shows and set up chairs for audiences etc. It was a bit overwhelming, I guess it's a bit like the home and garden show. There was also music everywhere and bands playing in little bars all over, by 8 pm the streets were packed with people drinking and dancing. There was also a fun booth for wine tasting, you bought tokens and just went to all the different booths to taste loads of different wines. WI has quite a few wineries so we tasted some local wines.

Jazz in the Park!

So a woman from church told us that Milwaukee is one of the best cities to be in for the summer, because almost any night of the week you can go to free outdoor music and concerts.

Last Thursday we went to Jazz in the Park downtown, it happens every thurday during the summer and it is a rather fun atmosphere! Everyone brings a picnic and wine and sets up tables and basically camps out for 3 hours with friends. Some people read, others play games, some get crazy and dance. There are people from all walks of life from people arriving in limos to the bums on the streets and everyone just has a good time.

Cathedral Square is a historical site of Milwaukee. I guess there was a slave from the south that escaped and came up to Milwaukee and the slave owner came to Milwaukee to claim his slave and I guess the people of Milwaukee, including some of the governing bodies went against the law and helped the slave escape to Canada. I guess this park was near where he had been held. That is a rough sketch of the story that a friend from church told me anyway.

The park is actually very small and is probably not even the size of a whole city block. They block the streets off and set up johnny on the spots and there are all sorts of vendors set up with food and wine for sale as well.

Bicycle capital!!

So we went on a bike trip along the Elroy-Sparta state bike trail

about 3 hours west of Milwaukee. This bike trail is a converted

railway and is number 3 on the top ten bike trails of the midwest!

We got rained on, but we didn't mind because it kept us nice and cool!

So the coolest part about this trail is that there are 3 tunnels.

The longest of them is 3/4 of a mile long and you walk into complete darkness, we had a

flashlight, but a puny one so it was rather scary. We each had our moments of panic going through them but we got through safely each time. The long one has an ice cave over the top of it, so there is water running along the edges and falling from the ceiling as you are walking into pitch blackness.

So we rode from Elroy, WI 32 miles into Sparta, WI. Sparta is suposedly called the bicycle capital of America, because 4 state trails that were old RR converge there. The town itself was not all that exciting, but they have the largest bicycle and we also saw a bike that was made for 7 people to ride! It was crazy, I guess they used to ride it in parades but retired it because it was too difficult to get 7 people to be in sync to ride it. They wanted to put it in their bicycle museum but it wouldn't fit, so it is hanging on up on the ceiling of a popular bike shop just off the trail.








So this was our bed and breakfast. The house was 130 years old and was very neat. This floor was original and the owners told us that it was made from 32 different types of wood! We had a fabulous 4 course breakfast in the morning and went on our way!

So if any of you are ever in Sparta, WI. We totally recommend this place for dinner. They seat only about 4-5 tables and it is run out of a house but the pizza was amazingly wonderful!

Waterpark capital!!

A Night at the Wisconsin Dell's

after our little bike trip we stopped and camped a night at the Dell's. The Dell's really reminded us of branson, complete with a Wisconsin ducks and boat tours, a few shows and a lot of waterparks. But the comercialization was present everywhere.

We didn't go but there was this exhibit of the supposedly the top secrets of the White House and here is a replica of the White House upside down. Kind of random there was a lot of stuff like that!


Our campsite was very nice! We relaxed and recuperated after our long bike ride, very relaxing.

So the Dell's have about a bazillion water parks and every hotel has their own water park and amusement park. I did not learn until we were there that Matt had never been to a water park!

A trojan horse, part of Mount Olympus hotel and park.

We were ready and waiting for the doors to open on Saturday to beat the crowds. The weather was perfect, hot, but you got chilly whenever you got out of the

water because the humidity was low.


Matt having fun in the wave pool, he wanted to go all the way to the back for the waves, we did for about 10 minutes, then he started to feel rather sea sick. So here he is at the entrance letting the waves push him over!