Donna Martin graduates! Donna Martin graduates!

If you were a child of the 90's, you probably spent your tweenage years much like myself. Waking up late morning just in time to roll out of bed, hop down to the living room couch and settle yourself in with a big bowl of cereal and the remote control, just in time to hear that infamous theme song and see the faces of Beverly High's most notable students: Brandon and Brenda Walsh [fresh off the boat from the Midwest], Donna Martin [PTL the student body rallied together or she might STILL be in high school], Steve Sanders [Ew. and that's all I have to say about him], Kelly Taylor....and everyone's favorite Dylan McKay, as played by Luke Perry. Everyone loved Dylan because he was a little rough around the edges, sometimes drove a motorcycle and had a tragic homelife that just made you want to pat him on the head and tell him him that though his dad might be off in prison, his TV fans still loved him.

Well, Dylan fans....Luke Perry is in town filming a new movie called Sam Steele and the Junior Dective. Yesterday morning Sara, Karen and myself set off on a quest to find Luke Perry in the vast suburb of West Des Moines. We got our first lead that he was filming at one of the fire stations in WDSM, so we set off toward the only fire station we were aware off.

As luck would have it, there were serveral firemen out washing up the equipment. Karen flagged one young man down, who was kind enough to report that Luke Perry had already been and gone. He gave us a lead to our next location, which brought us to the big gated house by Valley Church. Alas, Luke Perry evaded us again.

We are girls with gumption, so we put on our Luke Perry thinking caps and ended up at West Glen. We combed the farmer's market, Caribou Coffee and Fuel Juice Bar. Apparently Luke doesn't like crowds because he was a no-show once again.

To make up for the disappointment of missing one of Hollywood's hottest C-list celebrities, we ate our weight in Hy-Vee pizza and called it a day. I'm kind of glad we didn't ever find him. I don't know what we would have said to him. Certainly, "Donna Martin Graduates" would not have passed muster.