Once out of Circus World, we dallied a bit in the Baraboo city square (all turn-of-the-century buildings) checked out the restaurant that we had planned to have lunch, and eventually located our hotel. The Girls and I went swimming (while The Wife ran off for a few hours at K-Mart), and when we finally re-assembled, headed out to have some dinner. We made a point to get up early in the morning, so that we'd be on-time for the pre-check-in (we couldn't actually get into our room in The Dells until 4pm) ... to get our waterpark wristbands ... at 10:30am.
Anyway, The Wife convinced me to let her drive home, given my bum knee/ankle/back, and I didn't fight her much on it. I took an Alleve and zonked out in the van while they had McDonalds. Once we got back on the road and I made sure that The Wife was pointed to Chicago and not Minneapolis (she is notorious for getting on the wrong on-ramp and driving for hours before realizing she's headed the opposite direction she intended), I also zoned out for about half of the trip home. Amazingly, it only took us 3 hours to get back (part due to The Wife's "lead foot" on the interstates, and part due to extremely reasonable traffic for Easter Sunday), which was good. The Girls had a great time, and are now angling for us to make a trip up to The Dells in the Summer (insert scary accent music here) ... something that The Wife and I are not quite sure we're up to (with about ten times as many people milling around than is the case in the winter!). Oh, well ... now you know where I was while you all were posting those 300+ things to my Friends List!