Northern Exposure--Day 13

Aww, what a little sunshine will do for you. The rain has stopped and we've had beautiful sunshine the last two days. Most of the rally attendees left on Thursday morning and by that evening we had less than a dozen left. Several of us got together Thursday night and went into Amana for dinner at the Ox Yoke Inn. Joanne and I both had won gift certificates of this restaurant as door prizes during the rally.

We spent Friday doing some sightseeing along with a trip into Cedar Rapids. Although the downtown area of Cedar Rapids is under water we only had to go to the edge to get to Wal-Mart. We drove around the area attempting to get to the different towns that make up the Amana Colonies. We got to most of them but then ran into roads closed due to flooding. The picture is where the road turns south at West Amana and goes down to South Amana. This is not a lake but farm land covered in water where the creek ran over it's banks. We did get to see some things. In West Amana we stopped at a broom and basket shop where they have Iowa's largest solid walnut rocking chair. At the same place they had some other displays, along with a tractor that seemed really stuck. Fortunately, this is not from the current flooding. ;-> We did see several places that the flood waters have taken over, mostly in Amana. Areas that we had been able to drive earlier in the week are now under water.

By Friday evening we were down to six coaches still at the RV Park. We all got together to have a potluck dinner. There was plenty of food and everyone had a good time sitting around visiting. Another coach left this morning and the rest of us will be leaving tomorrow and Monday.