Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Marshalltown, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City

I decided to be in Ryan Heider's paceline the day we headed to Marshall town. Coincidentally his fiance is from Marshal town and she was preparing a lunch for us at noon. I wanted to get him their as fast as possible since he hadn't seen her in a while. So when It was my time to pull I cranked it up to about 25 to 30 miles an hour over those rolling hills, I was exhausted, but it was a lot of fun, and are pace line got their first.
We had a friendship visit at a bowling alley for special Olympics bowling. Surprisingly it was our first SOB event this summer. During school my fraternity brothers and I do SOB every week. I must say that I am not the best bowler, I hardly bowl over 100, but today I was having the best game of my life. I started over with 5 spares and strike. However I ended with a 131, mostly cause I only got one pin in two frames.
After dinner Alison Zimmer, heider's fiance took J-post and I around town. We even saw the sketchy elf-man's house (look it up on facebook).

The ride to cedar rapids was one of the nicer days in Iowa. It was 80 miles and we were racked for 10 of them because the road was dangerous. Lodging was at the ARC of cedar rapids which is also where our friendship visit was located. At the visit I did some arts and crafts projects with my new friends.
After dinner some of us went to some local establishments in Cedar Rapids. Sam Leaf and I were able to see the end of the Yankee game where Hideki hit a walk off home run.

The ride into Iowa City was eventful since it was raining most of the day, but it was only 30 miles. We had an arrival into the old capital building since Iowa city used to be the capital of Iowa.

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