tour d'Iowa

so we took jake's 'official' tour of Iowa. have to say it's a pretty impressive campus, physically and educationally, when you see it through the eyes of a guide:) had a nice walk on a nice day, saw a dorm room in Currier (giant shocker that they don't take you through Burge).....went to lunch at Burge....LOTS of choices at all the different stations but the food doesn't taste much different than dorm food did back in my day......met with the honors program which sounds promising....then met with a professor from the department which was the only strange point of the day. he kept his office very dark, and wasn't very enthusiastic (as everyone else that day had been). i think maybe he was trying to give jake a realistic picture of the program, given the other schools jake applied to. anyway, we left on a little bit of a downer but jake quickly turned it around and i feel like he's happy with his decision. there's so much opportunity for him - he'll just have to seek it out a little more actively than he would have at other places. everything happens for a reason and i'll admit that a small part of me is happy he's not halfway across the country. i hope he has a blast at school, explores all kinds of new things, and buckles down to get the background he'll need to make his choices for grad school limitless.
couple of really random things....during the tour this GIGANTIC dog wandered 'through' the tour. twice. i mean seriously this thing was the size of a pony. then, as jake and i were killing some time before an appointment, we were walking past the airliner and heard knocking on the window.....looked up and who's sitting in the front but kevin grimm. at the 'liner....2 o'clock....on a tuesday afternoon. random. just goes to show....you never know what's going to happen at Iowa:)