Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Indianapolis

Indianapolis was Wes choice for vacation this year... We all know why. We arrived in Indy at 10:00 and Carolyn picked us up (she is from our MyColts.Net site) she drove us to our hotel downtown, The Cantebury. We checked in and went for midnight snacks at Steak and Shake across the street. Thursday morning well afternoon with the time difference Wes was jumping up and down because we walked to Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Colts. He was grinning from ear to ear and couldn't believe his eyes. He had made it, he had fulfilled his dream of being in Indianapolis.
We went inside the Pro Shop, which was two stories high, his face was priceless. So was his shopping trip lol, he got everything he could possibly find, he held nothing back :-)! While we checked out, Jenny our cashier asked if we had gone on the tour yesterday. He sadly said no, then she left for a second, came back and told us to follow her. She took Wes inside the Lucas Oil Stadium, he almost passed out, he got to see it, home of Peyton Manning. She was a sweetheart.


Friday we went to the Children's Museum. They had a comic book section, Wes was still very excited, he kept telling me "I had that toy, that comic book...Oh Oh and this" He was such a little kid, but I had fun too, we went into the animation station and made a movie together lol. I saw some Incredible's stuff, then a Cape and I went all Etna on that cape and started saying "NO CAPES ;-) dad" We also did some shopping at the Circle Center Mall and then ate dinner at CHAMMPPS. They had Blue Friday going on, so we had free raffle tickets, but didn't win anything. We even stole tickets when someone left there table, but still no luck.



Saturday we went Monument Circle (Which is the middle of town). We didn't know at the time this was a Civil War area and they had a free Museum downstairs. Wes loved it, he was in heaven, he kept giving me history lessons :-)! We also went to the top of Monument Square which is 15 feet lower than the Statue of Liberty. When you got up the tower it was small and bigger bigger people wouldn't be able to make it around, but it was fun.
We went to Blue Crew (famousssss) Bar, which is another county over, but Carolyn drove us to the Bar and Chaz drove us back. When we got there, everyone from our site family greeted us, bought us dinner and drinks. Then it started to snow so Wes, Carolyn and I went outside to take some pictures in the Winter Wonderland :-). We met the owner and he let us go behind the bar, we got the full service treatment.




SUNDAY was game day... Wes was awake at 7 (EST) and he was pumped... He kept staring at me... We walked to the Stadium at 10:30 and had to wait 30 minutes before the stadium opened... We bought toys for the Toy drive :-) Which was awesome, It felt good to help out. We were the 1st ones through the door, no joke. THE 1st ones... :-) Wes was so happy and it almost made me cry, we went to the opposite end zone from where we were sitting because Peyton Manning was practicing with Marvin and Reggie. Wes was so happy, I wish you all could of been there. It was a rush to see everything. When we took our seats and the game started Wes and I became hoarse with all the screaming, we were wooing and yelling D- Fence all day. They blew out the Bengals 35-3 :-)


Overall this was a fun vacation, and a great break from Reality. Wes can't wait to tell everyone his side..

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