Sunday (7/19)  We left Amana Colonies this morning for Wisconsin.  We are staying in the Governor Dodge State Campground for the next four nights.  It is a very nice campground that actually has trees and shade and fire pits - we feel like we are really camping.

In the afternoon we went to The House on the Rock.  This house was the vision of Alex Jordan who built it as his home.  He was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright but they parted ways.  This house is Mr. Jordan's crowning jewel just like Falling Waters is Mr. Wright's.  We have not toured the house yet, we will do that and the second museum on the property tomorrow.   Today we did the first of the two museum.

This museum houses Mr. Jordan's collections of things.  Some of the items are a huge fireplace, music boxes, doll collections, victorian Main Street recreated, a car with a heart-shaped tub in it (see picture), 200 model ships, a boat swallowing 200-foot sea creature (see picture) to the world's largest indoor Carousel (see picture.)  

The Carousel has 20,000 lights and 269 handcrafted animals and not one of them a horse.  The Carousel and the related items are valued at $4.8 million.  It is hard to think that this is just one man's collection and this item alone is worth that much.