Every year about this time, Iowa has this thing called Ragbrai. What is Ragbrai you may ask? It's basically thousands of people riding their bicycles across Iowa. From the Missouri River to the Mississippi River.
Every year, the route is different. This year, it just happens to be going through my home town!
To really understand why this is so exciting for my town is that our population is dinky. Like 2000 people dinky. Our annual town celebration doesn't even bring in this many people!
Pictures don't even do it justice! I have never seen so many people and bikes in my life! Walking through the crowd was interesting. You couldn't stop or else you might get hit by a bike. And trying to go the opposite way was like trying to swim upstream!
There were quite a few vendors there too. Shirts, paintings, necklaces, temporary tattoos, and food! I manages to get a couple t-shirts and a pair of sunglasses from the Google booth (Yes! A Google booth!).
My sister loves Turkey legs and usually has to wait until we go to a big fair to get one. Myself, on the other hand, LOVE cheese, so I got myself some cheese curds! They were so good and I wish I had some more now!
All in all, it was a pretty good day. One that I will remember for years to come!
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