It's Leap Day - Lets get Hopping!

I’m hosting 3 Leap Day events and I’m hoppy to do so.  Come join me for one, two, or all three.

GC8JHEP - Leap Day i-Hopping - CR Event (6am – 6:30am)

GC8JHFH - Leap Day i-Hopping - Coralville Event (7:45am – 8:15am)

GC8JHG0 - Leap Day i-Hopping - QC Event (9:30am – 10am)

History

To better understand the true origins of leap year we will need to turn back time, way, way back, a couple thousand years!

• The first traces of a 365 day calendar with a leap year was in the Egyptian Empire. The goal of the Egyptians was to create a calendar that mimicked the Solar Calendar allowing them to keep their seasons on track
• Fast forward about 3,000 years and Julius Caesar, Ruler of the Roman Empire became the modern day Father of Leap Year
• Caesar felt it was time to recognize that winter truly existed and created a 12 month 365 day calendar based off that of the Egyptians
• This new calendar was fabulous for a few years but it was slowly realized that the earth actually has 365.24 days per year as opposed to 365. To correct this, Caesar instituted a Leap Year once every four years to ensure the man-made and solar calendars stayed aligned
• Some cultures didn’t have leap year on Feb 29^th -- instead February 24^th occured twice

Fun Facts

There are all kinds of leap day traditions and fun facts around this special day that comes every four years.

• 4 million people in the world are leap day babies
• Leap day babies are called leapers or leaplings
• There is a one in 1,461 chance of being a leap day baby
• Quite a few famous people were born on February 29^th
• Every year divisible by 4 is a leap year
• But every year divisible by 100 is NOT a leap year
• Unless the year is also divisible by 400, then it is still a leap year.
• There will be 8 years between leap years 2096 and 2104
• Women often choose this day to propose marriage to men
• Getting married in a leap year is considered bad luck in Greece, so one in five engaged couples try to avoid it

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Since it's Leap Day, I wanted to find a place to host an event.  I thought about hosting something near a bridge or on a roof top, but that may lead to someone actually leaping.  We can't have that.  Maybe there's a statue with an rabbit? Nah, who would have that?  How about a frog?  Well there's the Red Frog restaurant in Czech Village.  So I googled that and found that it's now Dirty Shirley's.  Not wanting to host an event where it sound like the waiters would be wearing g-strings and tastles.  So, that was out.  Then I thought about restaurant names and came up with ...... 

Since there's already a breakfast being hosted on the other side of town, I decided to host a flash mob at the IHOP sign.  We'll meet to discuss our plans for the day and then snap a group photo as the sun is coming up with the IHOP sign.  Maybe SuperGoober will bring his tripod? Feel free to stay and dine, but I will not be reserving any seats for this event.

Where: 2545 Edgewood Rd SW, Cedar Rapids, IA

When: 6:00am - 6:30am (Yes that early) You gotta get hopping on Leap Day!

No purchase necessary to log an attended at this event.

Watch this event for any weather related cancellations.  I will try to make an announcement the night before if the event is cancelled.