Mini vacation- Day 1

This weekend I had to go to Iowa city for a work training so I decided to make a family vacation out of it.

I tried to find a place on couchsurfing, but with two kids it is getting a little tougher.  So I searched facebook, asked a few friends who lived in Iowa city and we had a couple takers, but one that could do both Thursday and Friday.  We stayed with Dana and Erik Lehman and their one year old, Owen.

Friday morning Dana recommended Deluxe Cakes and Pastries and she was spot on.  We had our first cro-nuts as well as yummy fruit tarts and chocolate pastries, etc.

Then I went to Hyperstream training and Bryce took the boys to the Iowa Children's Museum at the Coralville Mall.  $8 for kids and adults.  The museum didn't compare in size, but it had great things for them to do.  The most popular seemed to be the nuematic tubes that propelled air to move balls.

At lunch time the boys came back to the hygienic lab where I was and had panera box lunches with the rest of us.  Then they went back and had more fun.

 

When we returned to the Lehmans, we all went out to Oasis for Middle Eastern food.  Then we walked to the per mall for live music and stopped at every Herky sculpture in between.  We even found the one Naomi made with de Novo.