Today we were all Packers’ fans… at least for an hour or two. We toured the famous Lambeau Field, and WOW! These folks take football serious up here! Don’t believe us? Just look at these houses across from Lambeau Field – their yards are mini-football fields and decorated for football season all year!

Lambeau field is a sight to see. A bit of backstory: Originally, Lambeau Field was earning the lowest of all NFL facilities – the facility was only used on home game days each year. They hired a new CEO, he updates the facilities, opens up to the public for use and tours… and now the facilities are used almost daily for tours, weddings, proms and corporate events.

Our guide Brad was a super fan.. even down to his Packers tennis shoes

Notice the floor… if you could go through the walls, the floor of the Atrium, is lined up with the yardage on the field itself… seriously, these folks are obsessed!

The skyboxes in Lambeau are awesome and if you lease on of these luxury boxes, they are yours all year long and you are welcome to use anytime. And not a bad view either.

Its a Green Bay miracle, they are keeping their hands to themselves

Again, we aren’t Green Bay fans, but this tour was pretty cool.

Another site from Roadside America – 50 foot Lomardi trophy – check!

Picture in a cheesehead. Check!

Vince Lombardi Statue. check!

Curly Lambeau Statue. Check!

Brad, the tour guide, suggested we head over to Title Town to do some exploring for free, and man, was that a great suggestion. Acres of 40 yard sprint lanes, a football field, ninja warrior course and a huge hill to run down in the spring and tube down in the winter… and all free!

No need to find a restaurant for lunch – Mom’s Cafe has a Green Bay location.

Once we conqured Title Town, we did a little exploring… found the World’s Largest Hex Nut

And this signed that begged for teenage boys to make a stop and take a photo…

And what did we find right across the street? A Sinclair dinosaur wearing his own CheeseHead

After our Mom’s Cafe lunch, we needed something sweet, and luckily we weren’t far from the #1 milkshake in Green Bay. So off we went in search of Al’s Hamburgers. Easy to miss among the big building and sky scrapers but we found it.

Since 1934, Al’s has been making the best burgers and especially milkshakes. The Browns know 2 things… pork and ice cream. So we took a claim of “best milkshake” as a personal challenge. The inside of the restaurant was as it looks outside, simple and a bit old timey. But the shakes… Oh my word! They absolutely are the best milkshakes we’ve ever had!

We left Green Bay and began our journey to the Wisconsin Dells, but not without a few stops along the way… 1st house powered solely by hydroelectric power. Check

Then we read about “Weird Statues and Oddball Yard Art” that was only 14 miles off course… um, yes please. We are SO glad we made that deviation. It was awesome!! A yard full of random animal stuff. Giant cow head, huge whole cow, hippo flipping a jeep, lion on a rock… turned around in a strangers driveway just so we could see it all again! All this in one man’s yard!

We tried to find a muffler man that we had read about, but he was pretty disappointing. But the drive was gorgeous! So glad we stayed off the interstate and took the back roads.

We drove through some of the most picturesque towns

We even saw some Amish families and farms

We continued on and saw a sign for Ripon, Wisconsin, birthplace of the Republican Party. I wasn’t sure how a political party could have a birthplace, so we decided to check it out… sure enough, after reading the plaque, it is in fact the birthplace.

We finally made it to Wisconsin Dells with plans to rest a minute, grab some dinner and then swim at the pool. But the Holiday Inn Express had other plans… how about a 3-hour place to ride amusement park rides, drive go carts, bounce on a trampoline pad, ropes course, and some virtual reality games? Um, couldn’t think of anything teenage boys love more… so off to Knuckleheads we went!

We decided to just save time and eat here, so we ordered a pizza and pitcher of Sprite. While boys played, I waited and waited and waited. When I went to check the status, found out there was a mix up in kitchen so they were just starting our pizza and it would be another 10 minutes. We weren’t too upset since boys were occupied. Well apparently the staff at Knuckheads isn’t used to a polite response because they gave us free orders of cheese curds and chicken tenders! This was our first experience with cheese curds and I’m sure Knuckleheads Indoor Amusement Park isn’t gourmet curds, but Dang! Their cheese curds were delicious!

One more ride, and we headed back to hotel… Thanks for a great night with my own knuckleheads

Time for bed? Of course not! The pool is still open so we needed to maximize the day (and the night)

Tomorrow we ride a key boat and zip line… and whatever else we can discover in The Dells!