For as long as I have known Amy, whenever anyone mentions Iowa, Nebraska, or anything “out West”, she talks about the trip her family took out West when she was in high school that began with a stop at the Corn Palace. She talks about how they drove hours out of their way to go see something that was, to put it mildly, not that exciting (but free). The outside of the building is decorated in corn, with a different theme each year. The inside is filled with pictures of how the Corn Palace was decorated previous years.
Traveling east on I-90 through South Dakota yesterday, I began to see signs for the Corn Palace. Turns out it was right off the highway you would take to get to the Badlands. Since Amy remembers visiting the Badlands on her previous trip, it might not have been so far out of the way.
Collin and Alex had heard so much about the Corn Palace that they insisted we stop. We did. It was really good. I was impressed with the creativity and ingenuity of the whole thing. It made me proud to be a corn-eater. Amy and her sisters should be ashamed of themselves for the contempt they show for the Corn Palace. Everyone should visit it.
We even got a picture of Amy next to the picture of the Corn Palace the way it was decorated the year she was there when she was in high school. It only seemed right.
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Now I know you are not to put beans in your ears, but what about putting boys in your ears? Is that bad to?
You make me laugh!
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