Water for Elephants

My assistant is an avid reader, she loves to pick up the latest release and just dive in. One of her latest conquests was a book "Water for Elephants" and as with many of the "good" ones , she got all the people she knows to read it also ( She sort has her own little Oprah book club thing going).

Well, the movie was released this last weekend and since after reading the book you must go to the movie - we decided to meet in Iowa so the girls could all watch it together. So we loaded up the car and drove to Davenport so the ladies could watch together. Charlie came from Des Moines with her new friend Jamie (Yeah) - Chelsea rode with us with her friend Jeremy (Carl).


I had a different agenda - I was going to Iowa City to get some photos for paintings for the upcoming Summer of the Arts Show the first weekend in June. So as the other gents followed their girls to the theater, I went off to get some work done.

I spent about an hour walking around Iowa City and got some of the local hot spots ( and a few that I'm really excited about!)

On the way back to Davenport I took another shot at Wilton Candy - and it was open. So I went in and spent some time with Thelma ( the last time I was there they were closed due to a knee surgery - she still couldn't move around too well.) The ice cream soda was awesome - the inside is very nostalgic - the real jewels though are Thelma and George the owners. Hopefully I'll get some things finished and can drop something off the next time through.