One of the things about the new age of instant international information, it seems a little strange to just go on with your life when things like the unrest in Iran are happening. Andrew Sullivan's site has given over almost completely to being a twitter feed for Iranian demonstration information.
We had a day of vacation today in the Wisconsin Dells. The weather was absolutely perfect. (I can say that because during the hot sunny part of the afternoon I was napping in the camper.)
This morning we rode an Original Wisconsin Duck and saw at least one dell. (I had several ideas of what a dell might be, and all of them were nowhere close. Turns out to be a rock formation where a glacial lake emptied and the rushing water carved gorges into the soft sandstone. The dell is a space between sandstone walls or cliffs, and they have trees overgrowing them so that they are cool spaces where ferns and so forth grow.) The Ducks are amphibious vehicles developed for landing on beaches in WWII. Tom was amazed that they had so many still in service today. The controls for operating one looked pretty forbidding. But the dogs got to come along so that was a bonus.
We hung out at the campsite until after dinner (well, Tom went into town and found things to fix the front legs of the camper and the exhaust pipe for the truck), then we went and played Adventure Mini-Golf, walked into town for some fudge, and came back and had a campfire followed by roasted marshmallows. We achieved toasted marshmallow perfection tonight the likes of which I'm not sure when I've seen. Crunchy toasted on the outside but barely browned, a layer of hot melty marshmallow inside, and a nub of firm chewiness in the center. (Tom was going for brown and carmelized on the outside, and puffed up to twice their normal size.)
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