So my weekend was full of water. I went to Eric's this past weekend and the QC has had lots of rain. After a big downfall on Thursday night, Eric woke up to water in his garden level apartment on Friday. The landlord did a once over with the wet/dry vacuum on Friday and again on Saturday, and brought in a couple of extra fans. He left the vac with us on Saturday and we gave the wettest spots another couple of runs. It is slowly starting to dry out and is a little stinky be we made the best of it. On the plus side we realized we work well as a team in semi-crisis situations. I was so proud of Eric, he so easily could have been a "grumpy gus" all weekend, but there just wasn't much we could do other than vacuum, strategically place fans and remember not to walk across the room sock-footed... so he just chose to make the best of a very soggy situation. Luckily there wasn't enough water to do any real damage; however, depending on how well the place dries out new carpet may be in order. The baseball cards got a little damp but we managed to lay them out on the kitchen table a few at a time to dry out and relive baseball of 1982 in the process. I was glad I was there for the weekend to help out and keep Eric's mind off the sogginess.
On Friday night we headed out to the River Bandits game. Modern Woodman Park is located right on the Mississippi River in Davenport and it was surrounded by water, but amazingly the stadium remained dry the result of some incredible engineering done when the park was renovated several years back. The City of Davenport constructed a wooden pedestrian walk way that the baseball fans used to cross up and over the flooded river banks to the sand bagged stadium. It was completely nuts, but really cool. Hopefully these pictures do it justice. The game was lots of fun... they played the theme song to Gilligan's Island and kept referring to the "island that is Modern Woodman Park", plus the eventually changed the smashing windshield sound effect for the foul balls that exit the stadium to splashing water as the typical parking lots were under water.
Water affected the weekend in another way as well. Eric and I were planning to go to Des Moines to meet Jenn, Sidney and Abby for the day... since it is nearly the halfway point between QC and Omaha. But I-80 was closed near Iowa City, and it would have taken us way more than the regular 3 hours to get to Des Moines. Plus Des Moines was experiencing some flooding as well so we decided to try again another time when it wasn't quite so wet.
Despite the abundance of water it was still a great weekend. We went to Eric's brother and sister-in-laws house on Sunday to celebrate Fathers Day. Alec and Katie requested that Eric and I sit with them at the kitchen table. We felt special, and we definitely got our money's worth when just as we sat down to eat Alec blurted out "Uncle Eric, you should marry Jane!". Eric nearly choked on his pork chop, and I couldn't help but laugh... 4-year olds don't edit anything they say... I love it. I laughed and told Eric "No pressure, honey", and then Eric and Katie mimicked me so then then said "No pressure, Uncle Eric, no pressure." All in all it was a fun time.
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