Cedar Rapids

Rain, rain, go away...
It rained yesterday from about 6 pm to about daybreak. A very steady rain. It gave us the opportunity to wipe down our coach this morning, and now it looks like new again.

Yesterday we shopped at a mall on the west side of Cedar Rapids, and it was a very unsettling experience. About a third of the mall spaces were being used by FEMA, the Red Cross, and Cedar Rapids city government and agencies, as well as the public library! All this as the result of last month's flooding. It is really sad. I don't know if the mall is solvent really, as there were several spaces totally empty.

We took Matt and Rob Knapp out to eat at Texas Roadhouse, and judging from the crowd (a 30 minute wait), maybe the bad economy hasn't yet affected America's penchant for having someone else cook their evening meal. Lots of tables were full of young families. The food was good, and it was a great chance to catch up with news of Matt's old High School friends.

Today's thought: If the professor on Gilligan's Island could make a radio out of a coconut, why couldn’t he fix a hole in a boat?