The Great Circus Parade Part I

Baraboo, Wisconsin is the birthplace of the Ringling Brothers of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus fame. We always planned on heading out towards Madison to see the Circus Museum in Baraboo, but never really got around to it. I heard there's a big statue of Romeo the Killer Circus Elephant out there, and we definitely could have used a picture in front of that. Instead, the circus museum came to us, minus the killer elephant statue. Early in July the circus people loaded all their cool wagons and animals into trains and came on out to Milwaukee to parade around the streets and put on little shows. It was just like the first scene of Dumbo, but with snow instead of rain (in July?). Like I've said before, Milwaukee knows how to throw a party, they have cool stuff like this pretty much every weekend in the summer.
The parade itself was during church, so we weren't able to go, but we did spend a lot of time at the lakefront the day before where they had parked all the wagons, livestock and weird circus people for public exhibition. Check out how cool these here antique wagons are! There were about 50 of them parked all along the gigantic park by the lake, and each one of them was unique and beautiful. A lot of them are over a hundred years old. I never would have thought I could be so amazed by circus wagons. I've got loads of pictures of us posing in front of circus wagons (I bet you don't find that sort of action photography on many blogs out there), so I'll probably have to end this post with a To Be Continued...