Floods and Corn Fests

Ah, sweet Corn Fest!

This weekend is the annual orgy of free corn that is our biggest city festival. It was a rough week for DeKalb. There was record flooding. Hundreds off people are homeless, and many people that we know had feet of water in their basement. The Kishwaukee River by our home swelled to over five feet past the flood level. Streets were closed and neighborhoods were completely flooded. It was so bad that Lynne’s work, Northern Illinois University, closed on Friday.

Our own home was fine, but it was pretty unnerving. Luckily, the rain has stopped and things are slowly getting back to normal.

Corn Fest went on as planned yesterday, so we took a family walk to our downtown. Corn Fest is a bunch of silly, small city fun. There’s a carnival, food, free corn, music, and little shops. It’s cheesy, but it’s ours.

We ate some food and then went and watched a fake Beatles band called American English. Caitlin loved it. They were actually pretty good. They did the first hour in suits as the early Beatles, and they did the second hour in late Beatle outfits including the Sergeant Pepper uniforms. Caitlin was smiling, singing, and laughing. It was neat.

As we were walking back we stopped and got a rotisserie chicken from a new Mexican grocery. We were on the fence about getting it until a redneck walked past the store and swore under his breath, “Don’t nobody speak English.” It cinched our sale. It was good eats.

We capped off the evening by playing a pirate board game with our friends Steve and Karen at Borders. I will admit it; I’m a sucker for board games.

Lynne had a gift card for Borders so we picked up The Muppet Show Season 2 on DVD and the main book for the RPG Exalted.

Good Times...