Today was a really easy ride. We woke up at around 6 and had a sponsored breakfast by one of the Iowan natives, a student at Iowa state, Tucker Harrison. The breakfast was delicious, a little different from what I’m used to. I had breakfast pizza, a cinnamon bun, and a cookie. I was rolling over, complete stuffed. We headed out to our destination, Iowa City, completely south of Cedar Rapids. It was only 30 miles away, so we tried to sprint it out, and get there as fast as we could. We ended up getting there about 2 hours ahead of schedule. We staged up for arrival, and basically waited it out, until 11. Looking around, I was pretty impressed with the city. It was basically a complete college town, for University of Iowa, and I was really impressed by the scenic campus, especially the river through the campus.
We then rode our bikes right to the center of campus, where we headed to the old city hall. At the old city hall, we went upstairs to the convention center, and were greeted by the Arc of Southeast Iowa, and a couple guest speakers. One of those speakers were the president of University of Iowa, who gave a really entertaining speech about our journey.
We then rode to lunch, which was at the local cafeteria. It was all you can eat, and to say the least, it was awesome. Pizza, salad, double cheeseburgers, chocolate milk, they had everything a growing boy can dream of. I definitely ate a good 5 pounds. I am truely jealous of U of Iowa. If Michigan’s cafeteria was as good as this then...I would be fat. I guess its for the better.
We walked our bikes to lodging (a block away). We could of biked it, but most of us could barely stand up after that lunch. We were staying at the student union, which basically doubles as a pretty good hotel.
I then did my turn of scouting, checking out the first 20 miles of tomorrows ride. It looks like not a bad ride, except a few rolling hills here and there.
We headed back to campus, to have dinner at the same cafeteria. Man, I could have the same meal...and I did. Except, tap on some bacon-wrapped turkey fillets, and we were golden.
After my third overstuffed meal, we walked across the street to park, where we had a friendship visit with the local Arc chapter. We just hung out for a while, and got a kickball game started. It was a lot of fun, until I slipped, and totally scrapped my knees. My first booboo on the trip, funny it was on a bike. Actually, not so funny at all. Kind of sad.
We then had the rest of the night off. A few of us went to Tucker’s house, where we spent the rest of the night, until curfew. We played a few games of pool, a couple games of Wii, and got to meet Tucker’s family. It was a good time. Tucker lives basically on a farm, and has a cow and a calf. It looked delicious. The calf was very cute, and pretty adorable, like a little puppy. But still looked delicious.
We headed back to lodging, where we slept off a pretty fun day.
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