June 23, 2007Today started out much better than yesterday! Our hosts, Gina and James served some amazing and unique muffins from a local muffin shop. I can only use two words to best describe these muffins "cheesecake center."Also we practiced keeping food away from their enormousbear-sized dog so that we could hopefully know what we were doing when close by actually bears.After breakfast we drove up to Bethany's freshman year college roommate's...

June 22, 2007 Well the rest of our first day continued with a bang?literally. In Iowa we found ourselves driving through thunderstorm/tornado weather. We even ended up pulling over to the side of the road at one point to wait it out.When we finally reached West Des Moines (literally "west of the Moines") we (okay, maybe just Andrew) were relieved to find that Bethany's friends had a cold beer waiting for us. That night we went out in West Des Moine...