Weekend in Indy

Since the wrestling team made it to state, T needed to go down for the big meet on Sat. I decided that it would be fun for us all to go down there for the whole weekend. I wanted to be sure we could get a room at one of my company’s properties, so it would be comped. So excited to get to stay downtown at Courtyard.

I thought it would be great to get away and so Ethan could go swimming.

He ended up going swimming 4 different times, wow.

 

I also wanted to go to the Children’s Museum there, now that he is older.

Also, I wanted to get to see my friend, Sherry and her family. I was hoping to meet up at the museum.

I almost missed her phone call, reception at the museum wasn’t ideal, but we were able to meet up and hang out. So fun! I loved how E would follow L around everywhere. L has been there a bunch of times and they have a season pass since they are local.

This is at the entrance & ticketing area.

 

Dinosphere exhibit was really cool, Ethan said it was his favorite part 

digging for dinosaur bones

dress up like a dinosaur, but all the other little kids took the bigger costumes

this was the awesome water clock, looks like right before 3pm

then there was a Star Wars-Clone Wars exhibit

they even had the lightsabers and guns from the movies

part of the train – All Aboard exhibit – you could climb inside the layout

fireworks of glass

Ethan played on the carousel level when we were waiting for Sherry’s family. E loved all these little play houses, even an ice cream store

E was stuck up in this treehouse for a while with the little kids. There was a slide in the middle to get out of it and I just knew that he was waiting his turn and being polite. He said that some kids were walking up the slide, which he knows NOT to do. Ugh, I hate when kids do that. T and I totally figured that was the issue.

     hey there is Sherry in the background… I didn’t get any pics of us together

Lindsey & Ethan playing in the ScienceWorks section

E loves anything with computers so he had to make up a promise

little David wanted to play on the computer, too

  then they even had a mock tv news station

what fun

They even had a script to read, too neat!

they really loved Egypt, too… so cool

aww…they posed like this

then I told them to look at me

they had a restaurant with menus so the kids got to serve us…too neat              

After the museum we went to Shapiro’s Deli and T had an awesome pastrami sandwich, his first one ever.

E loves staying in a hotel. T and I brought our laptops with the free wi-fi.

We had to get home on Sunday morning to attend Matthew’s birthday party at 1pm. I wanted to go out for breakfast, looked up a Golden Corral and Cracker Barrel. We didn’t find the Cracker Barrel, so we ended up at a Golden Corral. Then they had already taken away the breakfast items by the time we got there! Indy is an hour later so we really weren’t expecting it.

Fun to get away and for free! Well, I did have a parking fee at the hotel $17, geez that downtown fee. It was so great to see Sherry and her family. Oh, and wrestling team was knocked out of the tourney by noon, so that is why we were able to go to the museum relatively early.