Keokuk adventures

On my birthday weekend getaway we went to some smaller towns. I like old small towns, I'm always telling Brad that we should get an old home and fix it all up. That is of course his worse nightmare, but I'm getting off the topic. We stayed in a town called Keokuk Iowa (Population 11,427) which I knew once out and about could prove to be entertaining. I was not disappointed. Our first night when we went to the walmart we were walking down the isle when I saw this boy who could not have been 10 years old and kind of chunky laying on the ground long way's rolling down the isle. After three full body rolls he pops up points his hands into a gun and shoots at us then commando style jumps behind a rack of food. Brad looks at me, and starts nervously looking for an exit, I on the other hand thinks this is hilarious especially because his mother is calmly pushing her cart full of food not seeming to notice her son was rolling on the ground as some kind of army hero. So he poke his head out and I quickly do what I must which is shoot at him back. Brad of course hisses at me, "Dana, stop it! Stop it right now!" And I start laughing even more, because then it is on he starts darting behind things wide eyed pointing at me and shooting even more. We do this until his mom turn down the isle and we walk towards the check out counter.

While standing waiting our turn Brad all of the sudden gasps and says, "Dana look at that! What the....." I look and see a mom pushing a full cart with a baby in the front seat no biggie right? Then after looking closer I realize there is a small boy stuffed into the cart but with food piled up on top of him so that he can't move!!! I had to look away or I was going to laugh out loud the poor kid looked miserable, legs crammed around boxes of food and leaning against the metal cart. After they walked past Brad leans down and whispers, "There are NO good looking people in Keokuk Iowa." Brad! I tell him to stop it and that God loves all of his children ( my classic line he hates) he just rolls his eye's and says an even more demeaning comment I won't write down at this time. We left walmart wondering what more does Keokuk have to offer.

Brad said he wanted to go out for dinner for my birthday which sounded fun, um.....remember how it was a small town, that means no chain restaurants. None, nada, only chain restaurants were fast food but we wanted to try something a little nicer. So we found an advertisement at the hotel about a place that "over looks the river" ohh sounds nice to me. I think I might have had to high of expectations, this is the outside of the restaurant.

But I was actually reminded of the "Don't judge a book by its cover" life lesson. The food was actually good! They did have big windows on the back that kind of over looked the river, so all and all Keokuk was an OK to lay our heads down at the end of our days.