{"id":179,"date":"2007-07-07T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T23:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=179"},"modified":"2007-07-07T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T23:46:18","slug":"wisconsin-dells-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Dells Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, as promised, pictures from Wisconsin Dells: &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.famille.org\/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&amp;g2_itemId=2401&amp;g2_fromNavId=xb17dc9dd\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gallery.famille.org\/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&amp;g2_itemId=2401&amp;g2_fromNavId=xb17dc9dd<\/a>&gt;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The resort.&nbsp; We stayed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/famille.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/hotel_review_raintree_resort_w.html\">Raintree<\/a>.&nbsp; Pictures of the building, parking lot, and the indoor waterpark.&nbsp; We went to the outside waterpark too; it&#8217;s basically the same as the indoor except it&#8217;s, well, outside. <\/li>\n<li>Mini-golf.&nbsp; There&#8217;s lots of these places in the Dells that offer hundreds of holes of golf.&nbsp; We settled for 18 :).&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>The Upper Dells boat tour.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll see our boat, more pictures of Wis Dells sandstone formations, and a few pictures from some of the boat stopovers including the famous Stand Rock (where the dog jumps across).<\/li>\n<li>The Ducks \/ Lower Dells tour.&nbsp; More sandstone :).<\/li>\n<li>&quot;Top Secret&quot; &#8211; a sort of strange upside down house that you tour.&nbsp; It was fun, but not extraordinary.<\/li>\n<li>Go carts.&nbsp; We love go carts.<\/li>\n<li>Rick Wilcox (magician).&nbsp; There&#8217;s one picture of the kids with him.<\/li>\n<li>The Riverview and Great Western Railway.&nbsp; This is kind of special.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a 15&quot; track, with cars and a&nbsp; real working steam engine built specifically for them. I include pictures of the cars and engine, plus the staff turning the engine around on a turntable at the end of the line.&nbsp; We approached this ride with some trepidation, thinking it looked kind of like one of those amusement park train rides.&nbsp; But it&#8217;s a nice one, really &#8211; 1.5 miles each way and the Engineer explains to the kids how a steam engine works.<\/li>\n<li>The Lost Canyon.&nbsp; This is a horse-drawn carraige (sp?) ride through &quot;Lost Canyon&quot; in the Dells.&nbsp; More sandstone, but this time with horses in the foreground.<\/li>\n<li>Tommy Bartlett&#8217;s Exploratory.&nbsp; A little difficult to describe, it&#8217;s like a small version of the Museum of Science and Industry, where kids can do some hands-on activities.&nbsp; If you look carefully, you&#8217;ll find a picture of Tommy Bartlett water skiing in there &#8211; the only time in his life when he put on water skis.&nbsp; Also, Aaron and Marla&#8217;s heads are on a platter, and Justin makes some rubber band art, and Marla does an acrobatic trick involving a bicycle precariously balanced on a high wire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, as promised, pictures from Wisconsin Dells: &lt;http:\/\/gallery.famille.org\/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&amp;g2_itemId=2401&amp;g2_fromNavId=xb17dc9dd&gt;. Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll see: The resort.&nbsp; We stayed at the Raintree.&nbsp; Pictures of the building, parking lot, and the indoor waterpark.&nbsp; We went to the outside waterpark too; it&#8217;s basically the same as the indoor except it&#8217;s, well, outside. Mini-golf.&nbsp; There&#8217;s lots of these places in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}