...and on the 10th Day They Rested

So, yesterday we basically took the afternoon and evening off from touring. The secondary reason for this is that we were kind of tired from all the rushing around and needed some downtime. The primary reason is that I somehow developed a stiff neck the day before and was suddenly finding it painful to move my head from side to side or up and down. And when you're touring and looking at sights, you'd be surprised at how much you kinda want to be able to move your head. Like if someone says, "Hey - look at that building", and you try to turn your head to look at that building but instead get a shooting pain in your neck, it definitely puts a damper on the whole experience of looking at the building.

So, we spent the late afternoon and evening watching bad cable movies and TV shows in our hotel room. It was exquisite - just what we needed after nine days of touring around like crazy. And I discovered that the Brady Bunch movies aren't nearly as bad as you might think they'd be. And then we had some excellent Thai food at a restaurant with the motto "Thai it, you'll like it!" All in all, a great day considering the whole excruciating pain thing and all.

Today my neck was good enough to continue our trek. We drove to Madison and on the way visited House on the Rock and Taliesin, the architecture school created by and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. At both places, we got there right before closing and got the weird experience of visiting tourist attractions where we were the only tourists and the employees were waiting for us to leave so they could go home. At the Frank Lloyd Wright school it was kind of nice because we got a private guided tour of the place. It actually kind of put a damper on the House on the Rock, but it did allow us to take this picture of me in the Infinity Room without any other tourists getting in the way: