Why You Watch a Thunderstorm From Afar
Posted on June 4, 2008
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On the Saturday morning we did not sleep quite as long as the day before. Instead we got up and went to a nearby park where we played a sweet game of Ultimate Frisbee with Jarron, Teel, Caleb, Peter, Kurtis and Sam. We also tried to play some volleyball but we gave up pretty soon, Kansas-people cannot play volleyball. We went back to Sam’s pool and jumped in and had some chicken fights (for old people and Swedes: a person sits on another persons shoulders and wrestles another par of chickens). For dinner that day we went to a steakhouse called Montana Mike’s, where Sam had been worked the summer before. Erik and I got steaks that we could not finish. Right after dinner we went to the Coronado Height, one of the highest points in Kansas, and watched the sunset.
Lindsborg is a funny thing. It is a Swedish town in the middle of nowhere in Kansas, which we went to after Coronado Heights. The names of the shops where in Swedish and there were Dala Horses all over the every now and then along the streets. We were there at night after closing time so we actually do not know if anyone speaks Swedish or if it’s just a tourist thing. However it was pretty sweet.
This night was to nice and warm to waste so we went to a random country road between the fields, parked the car and talked while watching the gigantic thunderstorms a 100 miles away. Since Kansas is so flat you can see really far and it is actually more beautiful than Indiana, Illinois and the other flat states. When we got back we tried to watch another movie but repeated the same procedure as the previous night, fell asleep on the fuzzy and furry floor carpet.
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