Iowa City

It was so much fun being back in Iowa City! We ate lunch at a favorite college hangout -- the Hamburg Inn (yes, I ate meat for awhile in college).

We hunted for fossils, went to the old-school natural history museum, and the wonderful university art museum that houses a lovely African art collection. (I LOVED the African art classes I took in college.)

We all LOVED the Devonian Fossil Gorge. Abby was really good at finding the fossils!




Below is the fossil of some sort of worm-like creature from the deep sea.

Coral and ancient sponge covered this rock.

Will and Abby enjoy the natural history museum. The main reason we visited was to see the right whale hanging above Will's head. Abby is a whale aficionado and had never seen a right whale.





This picture doesn't show it well, but Abby was actually quite interested in the African masks and asked a lot of great questions!