First and foremost, Please Please Please pray for my friends and family who live in Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas of Iowa. Living there for 8 years and seeing these pictures gives me goosebumps, leaves me speechless and has made me cry on numerous occasions. It is so freaking unbelievable - again beyond this I am speechless. Asking again, please pray for everybody in Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas- it will take a lot of time to recover from this BUT it WILL be done! If you don't have a chance, look at this picture - this is a DQ I ate at on a few occasions when I was living in Cedar...
This picture is the Five Seasons Tree that sits on what used to be Mays Island... I can't believe how close the water is to the bottom of the "leaves"
So thanks to all of the flooding, I had to cancel my vacation for next week. I had planned on spending part of my time seeing my folks and family in SE Iowa and the rest up in Cedar Rapids - but since I can't get from one side of Cedar to the other, and most likely my friends house basement is flooded (which is where I was going to be staying) - I decided it was probably better to "delay" my time off. I'm upset, but I will get back there. What sucks more is I haven't seen some of my friends and family in now over 6 months.
This past week a friend and I ate lunch on the patio of a bar and grill and then came back to the same bar and grill a few hours later and were outside for maximum 30 minutes.... in that short time I got sun burn, my nose getting it the worst. I discovered last night it's blistering - EEEK!
I got my hair cut today... it's finally the style I wanted, except it's not styled. I am just not okay with paying somebody $25 or so to style my hair who doesn't really know me and know what I like. I'll get some pictures up once I actually style it!
I owe this little explaination to Melissa - I should have posted this in my last post but didn't really think about it until I read the comments. One of my family members didn't pass, it's a long story, a story that gives me goosebumps, a story that boils my blood and one that would probably set me into a crying rampage.
Wow... I feel like I wrote a dang book - I'm praying for you Iowa folks! Have a great weekend everyone!
This past week a friend and I ate lunch on the patio of a bar and grill and then came back to the same bar and grill a few hours later and were outside for maximum 30 minutes.... in that short time I got sun burn, my nose getting it the worst. I discovered last night it's blistering - EEEK!
I got my hair cut today... it's finally the style I wanted, except it's not styled. I am just not okay with paying somebody $25 or so to style my hair who doesn't really know me and know what I like. I'll get some pictures up once I actually style it!
I owe this little explaination to Melissa - I should have posted this in my last post but didn't really think about it until I read the comments. One of my family members didn't pass, it's a long story, a story that gives me goosebumps, a story that boils my blood and one that would probably set me into a crying rampage.
Wow... I feel like I wrote a dang book - I'm praying for you Iowa folks! Have a great weekend everyone!
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Well, shoot, I feel like a dork, but hey, I read "lost a family member" and I thought it ment passed away. =) ANYWAY.... CR is awful! I have been talking to my mom, who works down town and she has no clue when she can go back, and then they were going to try and work at the IA City office instead and use those computers, but now there is no way to IA City...so, who knows! I honestly am in shock! I can not believe it is this bad. It wasn't even like that in '93!
By the way, if you are thinking about delaying your trip anyway, possibly you could come out the week of the 12th of July.....You should be getting an invite to my shower that weekend. Anyway, just a thought. =)
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