June 23, 2009
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Photos from the Weekend
I took my dad to the casino for Father's Day. It was a fun time except I realize I suck at photography.
These are just some views from the floor above the waterfalls and pools plus I included the eagle. I love that eagle.
The lighting changes from time to time to give the illusion of the change of days.
This is a mural on one side of the restaurant floor of the casino. It portrays the different seasons and the Ho-Chunk way of life.
There's a another view of the eagle and the escalator with some old people riding.
I quick caught a photo of two security guards riding the escalator. I had to limit my photo taking because of them.
This is the sports bar within the casino. 5 beers for $10...$1 tap beer of their "special" brew which is actually Old Milwaukee. They call it Benchwarmer Lager.
This is the canopy outside the casino where people drive up for valet parking. On the other side of that rock is another waterfall.
These were some random Harleys just sitting outside by one of the rocks. I was supposed to ask my dad if they were giving them away but it is awkward that they didn't have any security nearby.
This is the outside of Tommy Bartlett's Robot World. It is a pretty cool place. Lots of science stuff. They also have a replica of the MIR space station. Then I saw the canopy. The first time I read it I dropped my jaw and had to read it again. God, I have a dirty mind.
I was going to take some photos of Noah's Ark...you know the actual resting place of the ark, but I thought that since it is located at a water park I may get in trouble for taking photos of people in bikinis and speedos and I know that my readers don't want to see such things. I stopped at this hotel nearby Noah's Ark. I once read an article that it was one of the worst hotels in the state of Wisconsin and then I found this review site. It figures, as I walked past the main office I heard multiple people screaming for a refund.Then it was homeward bound. I had some interesting encounters on the way.
I stopped at a grocery store to look for some Throwback Mountain Dew and I saw this puzzling sign. It's for the Amish. They drive with horses and buggies. I am not fond of these people because for some reason the nails they use for their horse shoes always end up in my tires. They use a specific nail so I know it is the Amish. Anyway there are hitching posts all over my town. Then at a local Walmart they have hitching posts. It is fun to pull into the parking lot to see semis, convertibles, and the black buggies. The hitching posts are at the end of the parking lot and the Amish don't like that so they fight over parking spots and have been known to tie their horses up to the light poles or the shopping cart bins.
Well on one of the back roads I encountered some Amish. It was about 5PM so they were probably heading home from church which is an all day affair for them. I know some Christians complain about having to spend 1 hour in church each week. They don't have clergy and each married male in the community takes a turn hosting Sunday services. The whole community will show up and it usually last 9AM until 5PM. I was lucky to get these photos. The Amish hate having their photos taken. In the last photo look at the left side of the road. Yeah, that's how we are able to tell when the Amish have been through. It is such an eyesore and stinks something fierce in the summer time.
I was driving along and looked up a side road and saw this young deer. I couldn't tell if it was a buck or doe. I think it is too young too matter. I was just thankful the deer was about 20-30 yards from my car and not 2 to 3 feet in front of it.I realize I probably have wasted enough of your time but....who wants to hear me sing???? OK so maybe it isn't just me but the choir that I was in during college. It was my school's male choir and I was a 1st bass. These two songs were my favorite.
Kyrie...the different changes in this song give me chills.
Lord When Your Glory I Shall See...I think this is one of my favorite hymns and this setting gives me goosebumps and it just paints such a beautiful a picture of heaven. Make fun of me but it does make my eyes get a little moist.
That is it for today. I am almost finished with my recent project. I have about 10 or so pages left and then a side project of briefly describing books of the New Testament Apocrypha. I hope everyone had a swell weekend.
Comments (50)
omigawd beautiful beautiful i love the hymn best of all gud sound thaynks for postin this wow
@pansybradshaw -
Thanks, that was my school's male choir. I went to a Lutheran college so we are very proud of our music. My choir was the Male Choir. There were about 100 of us in that choir. I sang 8 of 10 semesters. There was also a female choir called Treble Choir. I think there were about 150-200 ladies in that choir. Then there was the College Choir which maybe was 50-75 and that was the best of the best. I never bothered trying out because I had more fun in the Male Choir. Then there was the Chorale which was basically people who only were in choir because they had to have a credit. I went out and found more of my choir cds and will have to post some more.
i wuz gunna say it hadda be an anglikan or lutheran skool cuz nobudy else duz musik lyke them xcept maybe the moravians did you go to st. olafs
I can't tell where the pictures are from? Funny seeing amish buggies and a casino thrown in. I like the eagle picture too but it's weird seeing him with what appears to be a walleye in his talons. Usually it's a salmon.
@pansybradshaw -
I think every semester I had at 1 music course in a classroom and then others such as choir or piano. Piano was required at my school. I hated to sit there at a piano and play. In one semester I was set to have 17 piano lessons. I only went to 1. I didn't get along too well with the instructor. Oh and St. Olaf's was a great guess. My school was just down the highway about an hour or so away.
@dikdoktor -
The casino is in Wisconsin Dells and the Amish are near where I live about 30 miles away. The eagles around here eat whatever fish they get. There is a spot that I didn't get to this year on the Wisconsin River where the eagles nest and it is jaw-dropping to watch them swoop in for fish.
odd as it may sound those are the top two in my things that creep me out list lol
Amish people and casinos...
those are awesome songs btw. i have heard something that sounds a lot like Kyrie but with the addition of strings it's probably a different song altogether lol
there both very haunting in a way but then to me i guess all choral singing is haunting
and it give's me a few additional ideas for my album actually.
These are great photos, you found quite unique things! The red warning sign at the horse carriage is funny!
I love trip journals like this with pictures! This was a great post, and fun to read and experience.
I am glad that they got that squared away about the horses...
i think they should put somehting on the horses butt so it catches the poop. they do that in new orleans why not up there. anyway cool pictures.
Nice repost
I'll have to give your voice a spin when I have some more time 
That looks a lot like Foxwoods casino. You've changed my perception of Wisconsin.
Yay for photos! I love the ones that show the different seasons. That casino looks really neat. That's interesting that there are hitches for the horses. There are tons of horse & buggies where I live, but no hitches at all. They either leave them near the back/side of a store or near another buggy.
Pretty cool pictures! Oh man, these prices for beer at that sports bar are just ridiculous! Man, you were in a choir? Wow, never thought you did that.
@choralone -
You are lucky you don't live around the Amish. I hate being around them in summer because their believes do not allow them to use deodorant. It gets pretty rank. I think the creepiest casino I've ever been to is in Shakopee. It is like a maze in there.
Well the song Kyrie is a song used in the Christian church since probably the early 100s AD. There are many different settings to it but the words remain the same. The words we sang were Kyrie Eleison which means Lord have mercy and Christie Eleison which means Christ have mercy. Glad I could help out with the album.
@nattata -
I love looking for unique things when I have my camera. I also like sharing these brief glimpses into my life.
You don't see signs warning about horses that often. Also there are signs around here on the sides of roads warning motorists to be on the look out for the Amish. I need to be sneaky and get some more photos of them and their way of life.
@musicmom60 -
Thanks. It is hard for me to understand why people come to the Dells but then I look at my photos and I understand why.
@SpongeBobScaredyPants -
You wouldn't believe the problems with Amish horses in this town. When the boys go out looking for their wives usually around 14 or 15 they will actually race through the streets in their buggies or wagons. Also, I think I wrote about this but a few weeks back there was an Amish horse that got spooked and ran all through the downtown area and was calmed down over by where that sign was located. As the kid, like 10 or 11, was leading the horse back to the hitch it spooked again and ran through the Ag Center and did like $3000 worth of damage and then it took a header into a lightpole. It was if the horse purposefully killed itself. Another thing that creeps me out is when I am awoken at 3 or 4 in the morning to the sounds the Amish going past my house.
@NightlyDreams -
Thanks, there was a movement to get the Amish to use those things around these parts but it was shot down because their way of life is a religion so the government can't infringe upon their rights even it means smelly horse apples cluttering the highways.
@bitterbittenrockinblonde22 -
Well I know some of the pictures look the same but I actually tried taking them from different angles.
@godfatherofgreenbay - If you say so
@JavaaWan -
I hope the change in your perception is for the better. People are surprised as to how diverse it is up. Like in temperature...this last winter I think one day it got down to -40 with the wind and today it was 102F. 140 degree differences...you don't find that everywhere. Also I find it hard to as many languages as I hear in my town anywhere else. Going to my grocery store one day I hear Spanish, Czech, German, Polish, Russian, and Chinese.
Sadly, your comment about Ho-Chunk looking like Foxwoods is pretty accurate since most Native American casinos strive to look uniform even if they belong to different tribes.
@TiRocKiinPiinK -
That casino is really fun. People complain that they don't win money there but that is what gambling is all about. It always favors the house. It's crazy how many Amish communities there are around here. I think I can find at least 6 plus I have heard more are moving in.
@kachino -
So are those good or bad prices for beer. Some places in Madison offer beer at $5 a bottle and the haunted bar I frequent has pints of beer for $2.
I bet a lot of things I don't say would surprise people.
@godfatherofgreenbay -
Those are great prices!
@kachino -
Really? I think they are somewhat high. Of course I have a bar around here that has 50cent tap beers and $1 bottles. Also in college there was a place that had 25cent beer night.
@godfatherofgreenbay -
Yeah, here in Quebec, it's pretty hard to find beers at sports bar for less than 4$.
@kachino -
Well I guess I won't complain.
@godfatherofgreenbay -
HAHA! Yeah, but it's $CAN. Tomorrow is a holiday here in Quebec. National day!
@kachino -
So I think that means it is more there? All I remember is one time when I went to Canada for a weekend of debauchery, I came back with a fistful of Canadian cash. I used to buy things at a gas station in Wisconsin. I realize I ripped them off. The clerk didn't want to take it but I coaxed him into it when I declared that Canadian coins are equal to American coins but they just don't fit in our coin slots. Oh happy National Day...I will toast some champagne and sing O Canada.
@godfatherofgreenbay -
National day is next week. Quebec's day is today!
Holiday!
@godfatherofgreenbay - Oh yes, would be great to see more!
Thanks for sharing - your pictures and your thoughts.
Absolutely awesome pictures!
@kachino -
OK...Happy Quebec Day
@nattata -
It's just that in summer it is hard to be around the Amish because part of their belief system says that they are not allowed to glorify their bodies so they don't wear deodorant making them very smelly in the hot weather but I guess my camera has a zoom.
@curiousdwk -
Thank you!
@RestlessButterfly -
Thank you, once it cools down I will try to get some more.
There are sooo many variations to "Kyrie", but it's always one of my favorites. That's an awesome choir you got to be a part of. And your photo skills may need just a little improvement (or a better camera), but they weren't bad. You were taking indoor photos and moving subjects... those are the hardest. So don't beat yourself up. I think they look nice. <3 SuZ
@godfatherofgreenbay - lol
@VioletMoonDancer7 -
I just have simple panasonic camera. Thanks, I actually enjoyed choir in college.
@godfatherofgreenbay -
so i guess the amish worship horse poop or something lol that's a bunch of sh*t
excuse my language 
@NightlyDreams -
HAHAHA...that comment has earned you the rimshot
@godfatherofgreenbay -
Yeah, very nice to have 2 days off in back to back weeks (Canada Day is next week).
The first four pictures are exceptional sensation.
@RestlessButterfly -
It is quite beautiful in that casino
@godfatherofgreenbay -
Wow the first award I've been given on xanga! I feel so proud. Now what the heck is it. lol
@NightlyDreams -
Press the red button. The rimshot is used by a lot of comedians. It has been a staple in stand-up because it helped the audience react to jokes.
@godfatherofgreenbay -
ah i didn't realize. i had my sound off so the only thing i realize was going on was a depressed button.
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