Can you believe that it is almost May? And…..we have been here almost 4 months! Pretty soon we should be able to change our place of residence! Or, we can start checking on getting football tickets…..hmmm, all options!!!

Anyway, we had a wonderful time with Sam and Doug. They came in Thursday afternoon and left on Sunday – we sure hated to see them leave.  We did get to do a lot of fun things. The U of IA football team was having a workout in Kinnick Stadium and one gate was unlocked so we were able to get in  and Doug could show Sam a Big 10 Football stadium! ( We did get kicked out!)  Doug did his requisite shopping for Iowa Hawkeye clothes and got to visit some of his favorite places from when he attended school here.

Saturday morning we went outside of Iowa City to the Coralville Dam where there is the Devonian Fossil Gorge. Did you know that Iowa was once south of the equator and was actually like the Caribbean Sea today. As a result of the last 2 floods at the Coralville Spillway, the Devonian Fossil Gorge was exposed. These fossils are almost 200 million years older that the dinosaurs – Charlie says at least as old as he is! It is quite a fascinating place and we did see lots of fossils – Sam was a great explorer.

The weekend passed too fast and we sure wanted to get on the plane with them when they left!

We have been watching the following site – ustream.tv/decoraheagles – it is an eagle cam in Decorah, Iowa which is in northeast part of the state. Mom and Dad eagle have 3 babies that are about 3 weeks old. We have been watching them from the egg stage and it is so fascinating and informative. They have had millions of viewers from all over the world. (Now you know what keeps us busy!)

We have lots of pictures for you this time!