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Well, I’m down in Texas. It looks and feels a lot like Iowa. :p I traveled 1,000 miles south, and so did the crisp Canadian air. According to Alan, the temperature started dropping a few hours before we arrived. Weather.com says the temperature outside is 45 degrees, which I think was also the high in Iowa the day before I left. In fact, it’s currently 1 degree warmer (and a lot sunnier) in Ames. My only real consolation, meteorologically speaking, is that the weather looks equally crappy throughout the south this week. My friends in Atlanta and San Antonio aren’t faring much better than I.

We stayed in Kansas City Saturday night, which turned out to be quite a bit of fun. I spent the entire afternoon/evening learning how to dismantle and reassemble the brakes of a ‘93 Astro. Admittedly, that sort of thing isn’t entirely up my alley, but I had a good time regardless. Afterwards, Don took me around KC to see the sights (as if you could do anything else to them). The second-to-best part: I got to see (and smell, so I guess you can do more than view sights) the Boulevard Brewery, home of yummytabulous Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat. The best part was when Don and I went to the Skies restaurant at the top (40th floor) of the Regency hotel and had a couple of Boulevards. :) Skies rests atop a spinning platform, so I was able to sit in an overstuffed chair several hundred feet off the ground, sipping beer and listening to the grand piano ten feet behind me, looking out the window at the slowly changing scenery below. It was a fabulous experience, to say the least.

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