* Note: you can skip to the end of the entry if you’d rather just look at the photos.
Thursday we arrived in Indianapolis in the afternoon, so we checked into our hotel first. We quickly realized that the city, while beautiful, was quite small, so we decided to walk over to the city’s mall, Circle Center, and walk around a bit before going to dinner. As I always do when we’re on vacation, I ended up finding some cute new clothes. New York & Company had a huge sale and more variety than the store by our house. I bought three tank tops, one of which is rather sexy that ties in the back. Joe was really excited when I modeled it for him.
After a little shopping, we walked down the block to St. Elmo steakhouse. I had read many good things about it, so I was really looking forward to our meal. Unfortunately, it was extremely disappointing. You can check out my review at Yelp. To make up for the disappointing food, we entertained ourselves by contemplating why we were seated in our dining room while some people were taken to a second one next door. We joked it was because we weren’t dressed up or attractive enough. That theory went out the window when Joe exclaimed, “Hey, she’s ugly and she just got in”. So then we thought maybe it was our clothes, but then they sat a nicely dressed couple nearby, so we were stumped. In all, we spent $116 on a meal I would never recommend to another person. I’d rather spend $20 at Target for a couple of t-bones and grill them at home.
After dinner we went back to the mall for dessert because I couldn’t stop eyeing the Godiva chocolate store. We also contemplated seeing Transformers at their cinemas. I didn’t have a sweater with me and dinner was starting to process, if you get my drift, so we nixed that idea and went back to the hotel for a bit.
We didn’t want to spend the evening indoors, so we headed over to White River State Park. We kept walking and walking until we ended up at the back end of the zoo and gardens! I took photos along the way, and on our way back we took a walk around the canal which is very picturesque. By the time we got back to the hotel it was near 10 pm but it wasn’t quite dark yet since Indiana is in the Eastern time zone. I think we got to bed around midnight and both tossed and turned most of the night. It’s always difficult sleeping in a different bed even if it is pretty comfortable.
Friday we were up at 6 am. We headed downstairs to the attached T.G.I. Friday’s for breakfast. Yes, you heard that right. Apparently they offer a breakfast buffet for $7.99, but I’d never pay that for eggs and toast; we had free breakfast passes as part of the hotel rate.
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Most days I am way too lazy to leave work during lunch. I usually find a quiet place to read and eat a tv dinner or sandwich.
