March 14 Des Moines

Just when a long day of roaming a deserted Sunday in Des Moines couldn't get any dimmer—we find we are "the evening show" at a club who's spent the better portion of the day hosting a southern rock and metal show. Ill fitting denim and "NRA" tattoos were the names of the game and we and H&W were very quickly realizing this was going to be "one of those nights." 

To kill time and get our blood sugars back in order, we ended up at "Fong's Pizza." Des Moines' downtown Chinese pizza parlor. It was recommended to us by a man we met outside the Science Center who approached us to ask if we were in that night. A few hours later we saw a playbill for "Jersey Boys." Had we been on our toes, we would've broken into an impromptu rendition of "Big Man in Town" with Mike Adams taking Frankie Valli's parts and Cheek doing a brief dance number. We rehearsed it later on our own. 

Orders at Fong's:

Tim, Kevin and Ty - Fongolian Beef

Jared, Mike, Will and Bryant - Crab Rangoon

Nate and Andrew (the adventurous ones) - Pineapple and green olive :(

For a $30 deposit, there was talk about getting the "Funky Monkey"—which comes in a massive monkey head—or the "Kamikaze"—which is drank with a vintage Japanese Kamikaze helmet. Why a $30 deposit is going to keep someone from walking out of a restaurant with a helmet on or what a Kamikaze helmet is doing in a Chinese pizza parlor was beyond any of us.