The Trip to Iowa.

I spent a while on the road this weekend. About 24 hours. Actually, I made the slightly depressing realization that i spent just as much time on the road as at my destination. Fortunately, it was worth it.

I drove 12 hours to Iowa with my friend who had just come in on a plane a few hours earlier. Being fortunate enough to have inherited a fraction of my mother's common sense, I drove the first leg. We had a fairly uneventful drive except for Jordan winning an awesome rubber ball filled with water and sparkles, and the thunderstorm. or should i say, The Thunderstorm.

We were headed towards Cedar Rapids, which is a good sized city that comes out of the blue in the middle of the cornfields. All we could see in the distance were dark clouds, and flashes of lightning about every two seconds. Then we drove underneath it. When that happened, there were sheets of rain coming down, and visibility was nil. and then came the hail. It was awesome.

[BTW, i have video, but it needs some editing cuz it's so long, but i've spent the past hour or two trying to find a decent converter so i can edit it, and i'm having no luck.]


Our next stop was a little place called:




Yep. We had to drive 4 miles off the freeway to Williams, Iowa to fill up at this place. one of my favorite parts of this gas station was this:




We got to Nate's house about 1:30 Iowa time, which is 2:30 our time. And we slept.

The next morning, Nate's family left before we did. Obviously. I didn't even see Nate that morning. Nate's dad heated up some bagel and egg and cheese and ham delicious sandwich, all the while making sarcastic wisecracks at Nate's friend Bryce, who was his best man, and who was at the house that morning... i don't know why.

Josh arrived at around noon, the wedding was at 2:30. We had a bit of a scare, because Jordan and I were on our laptops, and all of the sudden Jordan looks at his laptop and yells "HOLY CRAP! IT'S AFTER TWO!" Me and Josh freak out, i glance down at my laptop clock which says 2:13 or something like that, and then Josh says, "Is that Iowa time?" we breath a sigh of relief, and pull out our cell phones. 1:13. Josh: "Welcome to Central time, guys."

The wedding was great. If you've ever been to a wedding before, you have a good idea of what happened. It was nice to see the ceremony, because it would have been weird to come back to Cornerstone, and have Nate all of the sudden be married.

After the wedding, things started to get super interesting/weird. Because Jordan and I couldn't leave until the next morning, we didn't really have anything to do. Nate suggested that we go to his family's after party, so we could eat something and have something to do. Well, it did keep us entertained...

The highlight was the hayride full of about 40 of Nate's relatives, about 70 percent of them being slightly intoxicated. It was interested to say the least.

One uncle's favorite joke was: "what do you say on a hay-ride? 'HEY!!!"'

So we proceeded to yell "HEY" at everybody we saw. Hee hee.

We then made our awkward appearance at Nate's friend Blain's house, for his bonfire. Let's just say that throwing fireworks into a coffee can filled with ignited gas is a great icebreaker. So towards the end there was some great conversation, and I had a great time.

We hung out with Nate's family a bit after we got back, so we got to bed later than we wanted, so we left the next morning later than we wanted. I don't know how we thought we were going to leave by 8 in the morning anyway. We're crazy.

The drive back went great, it was mostly in the daytime, which was nice. We even had the pleasure of stopping by Amy's house to take a break, eat some food, and hang out at the beach for a bit. It was a nice break. For some reason Jordan got super hyper when we got to Amy's house, so he was fine on the way home.

And then i got home. And here i am!


The End.