Since leaving Chicago, we continued our tour of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in Madison, WI and added South Dakota ear-chitecture.  (Sorry about that pun - we can't help ourselves.)  We stopped to visit friends and relatives in West Concord, Minnesota.  Marty had the opportunity to visit cousin Debbie Avery and family and BJ had a reunion with college friend, Dr. H.C. Tronnier, whom she had not seen in 35+ years. Had to put a padlock on our purses when we visited the 96 acre Mall of the Americas just outside of St. Paul. We also saw lots of corn; fields and fields (and fields) of corn as we drove across country as well as 275,000 ears of corn decorating the Corn Palace in Mitchell SD.  Not quite as elegant as a FLW building but a lot of fun.  Tomorrow, Mount Rushmore.

Walter Rudin House in Madison, one of FLW's prefab houses designed for the middle class.

Detail of FLW's Monona Convention Center in Madison, WI

FLW's Unitarian Meeting House - the design was based on a pair of hands folded in prayer.

Our view from the car window for most of our drive through Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Marty and cousin, Debbie Avery, resident of West Concord, MN

Early photo of the Corn Palace.  Relatively new construction around the building makes it impossible to get a full photo of the palace today.

Detail of corncob design on 2012 Corn Palace.

BJ's words to live by  - You can't buy happiness but you can buy ice cream and that's kind of the same thing.