After many days of driving we have hit the expected highlight according to Jule and Anita - the Corn Palace. The Corn palace is an amazing spectacle, this year adorned by pictures of rodeo heroes. Corn is their medium for art, and we all were quite stunned by the sheer work and effort that these Iowans took to make a Russian style palace so American. After the tour we got to spend a minute or so looking through the gift shop, and of course had to buy some souvenirs to support the Kernels basketball team, whose mascot was Cornelius the Corncob. Despite my skepticism, it was an amazing experience. To top it all off, we ate at Bonanza’s, the home of the 31 foot long salad bar ( including not so salad-y items such as mousse
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