The Hawkeye State

This past weekend I traveled to Iowa City, enabling me to not only to visit a great friend from college, but also to see where my grandparents lived and went to school after they were married over 60 years ago. I wanted to share just a few of the many highlights from the trip:

* trying a bunch of midwest/Iowa-ian beers that I'd never had before

* eating at the Hamburg Inn, a restaurant that my Grandma remembers going to with my Grandpa

* visiting the library and checking out and copying my grandpa's archived Masters thesis in Chemistry, A Spectrophotometric Study of the Sulfonium Polyhalide Complexes (complete with the greek symbols handwritten in since the typewriter didn't have those keys)

* drinking at Joe's Place, which my Grandma told me they used to go to - only once or twice, I'm sure...