Cynically Optimistic

I have returned safely home from my brief yet action-packed trip to Iowa City. Iowa's homecoming weekend was a welcome relief from my recent stress at work. Although I wouldn't say the weekend was relaxing, I'm definitely recharged due to the change of scenery (and cold-ass weather). Friday's rains thwarted our planned outing to the frisbee golf course, but we managed to not melt into puddles of goo. It rained for the first part of the parade, not that I noticed since the shots at Gabe's eased away all of life's troubles. Beer Band was a crazy fun time, as per usual. This time we were interviewed by the WB network under the name "Bonaducci". Yes, that's spelled with two 'ucci's.

Saturday morning practice was fun, and only left us with 45 minutes of time to tailgate, which is really far to short in my opinon. I did manage to cram a lot of delicious meat into my mouth (thanks Ma Zillman, Frosty, Donor, Utechs, et. al). Pre-Game downfield march was great fun, and I'm fairly certain our lines were straight. A lot straighter than the HMB's. Just after that, we got shouted down by some random trombone player. I thought T-ra was going to tear his eyes out. Cooler heads prevailed and we had a lot of fodder for later in the evening. "Everybody hated you your last year in band!"

I made the lap around the newest suburb of IC, North Liberty, herefor referred to as NoLib (as all good neighborhoods should have an acronym). I did the tour of homes, a restaurant sampling, and played with D's and Andy's crazy fun new puppy, which is really too cute for words. Also, he's too quick to take photographs of. I think maybe you should have named him Heisenburg. Later that night, the Whitworth's hosted a rockin' party where we all probably cheered louder for Northwestern to beat OSU than at our own win against MSU. RedBull was thankfully present for the party (that's mostly the reason none of us can now run for Congress). Good times, and no broken beds.

Sunday morning we had brunch at Steak 'n Shake. Love that grease right before flying home. Go check out my Photos of the weekend.