Hello Loras College!

This past weekend Tyler and I took a small road trip, about four hours, to our new town, Dubuque, IA. If you would have asked us if we ever thought we would live in Iowa, we both would have laughed. Iowa gets a really bad rap in general, but especially from Nebraskans. I talked to someone today from Lincoln and told her we were going to Iowa, and she laughingly said, "Good luck crossing the border." Someone else told me that people from Nebraska hate Iowa just because it is next to us, but it is actually a good state. Anyways...

Our first experience of Iowa was Friday night about 9pm crossing the Missouri River from Illinois into Iowa. Something was hitting our windshield and I thought it was rain. But then whatever it was stayed on our windshield. Yes, it was bugs. Hundreds of bugs hitting our windshield. It was one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen.


We apartment-hunted for most of the day Saturday. In my mind I was going to blog about our "House-Hunter" experience and show you the three places we looked at and the perfect one we chose. Well, it doesn't work like that. I always thought people on that show had to have looked at more than three places. We looked at about six different places and are still on the hunt. (Side-note: Dubuque has, especially around the campuses, huge houses that are broken up into four to eight apartments. One place we liked, but there were two doors, one from the bedroom hallway and one from the kitchen, that lead into the rest of the "house" and even though they were locked, we weren't quite okay with that. I guess it's common, but a new phenomenon to us.)

Then our team director, Jason, gave us a tour of Loras campus. It is beautiful, lots of trees, and it is so small that the one road that did go through campus was blocked off so you can only walk or bike through campus.

This is the outside of the Church on campus. There is also an Adoration Chapel a few blocks away, which used to be the old Church.

This is the student union. It is a really cool building inside. There is a Pub, the cafeteria, and a lounge area. It's the place on campus to hang out, or so we've heard.

They call this statue "Lay-up Jesus". Not sure how I feel about it yet...

This is the library. I think he said it was the second largest library in Iowa?

This is a freshman hall, but also where the FOCUS office is.

Here is the field...

and of course, Coach Rosser checkin' it out!