The ride was only 27 miles, but it seemed a 10,000!
When we woke up this morning, it had already begun to rain. We thought that it would shortly subside, but the rain continued throughout the entire ride, and came down torrentially at times. When we arrived into City Park in Iowa City we prepared for our arrival to the Old Capitol Building. It was still raining, but it was fun to ride up to the Old Capitol Building with a group of individuals cheering us on.
The arrival procedures consisted of speakers from the community and university which were given in the Old Capitol building. The old capitol building is actually a museum today which caused an awkward situation when we arrived. Since we were soaking wet, the museum curator told us that we weren’t allowed to enter on account of the $250,000 worth of carpeting. After some persuasion, we were allowed to enter the building in our bare feet to continue with the preceding ceremony.
Afterwards we went to our lodging at the Iowa House Hotel. We had some terrific warm showers and then went to the Theta Theta house for a sponsored lunch consisting of subway sandwiches and chips. After lunch we had some free time in which Ali and I grabbed some hot and sour soup and crab rangoons for a snack. Dinner was another sponsored meal from the Youth Empowerment program at City Park. While there, I ran into Carson Hammer, a Virginia Tech Alumni who had recently moved to Iowa for work. We chatted about the chapter and exchanged fun stories before departing back to lodging. The rest of evening was left free so Ali and I watched a movie.
Tomorrow we will be riding 60 miles to Davenport, Iowa!
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