Indy

Four of us from college turned 40 this year.  We decided this required some commemorative event of some sort.  So, we tried in the summer to gather.  And failed.  So, we planned farther ahead and made it happen. 

We decided we would gather in Indianapolis, kinda a central meeting point, but more importantly, it wasn’t at anyone’s house where anyone’s responsibilities were.  There are three of us within 15 minutes of each other.  So, we carpooled on Friday afternoon out west together.  We took a slight detour to Taylor University to drop off some birthday cheer to a freshman we knew.  While there, it quickly became clear – we were definitely not in college anymore… and we might be getting a little bit older.

After a ridiculous number of construction delays (think about 1-1/2 hours of them), we made it to our little Air BNB house we rented.  Waiting there with a home cooked meal on the table was our friend from Goshen.  It was so good to be together. 

The first night we just hung out, caught up, ate stuff, and made some plans for the next day. 

Saturday, we went to Nine Lives Cat Café. A coffee shop and a adoptable cat facility all in one.  You could sit in a room (if you wanted) with adoptable cats and play with them.  Or you could just watch the happenings from behind a window – which is what we did and it felt a little bit creepy.  Then, we went to the arts festival that was happening in our district, Fountain Square.  It was fun to wander from booth to booth looking at the creativity of people. 

From there we went to our reserved Duck Pin Bowling lane.  Duck Pin Bowling is played with a smaller ball, smaller pins tied to a string, and three shots each frame to knock the pins down.  The bowling alley was a highlight of the trip.  It was a reconstructed 1930s alley, and it was just pretty cool to walk around and look at all the memorabilia.

                        

Our next event was a three hour food tour.  I had never done one of these, but would highly recommend it.  You go with a group to featured restaurants and eat selected foods at each one.  We started with appetizers (crackers, fancy cheese and meat) and mead (alcoholic drink of monks).

    

Then, we went to Three Carrots, a vegan restaurant.  We had salad and sandwiches there.

Followed that up with some pretty delicious Thai food.

    

And ended with come handmade chocolates.

After the food tour, we meandered back to our home and collapsed on the couch.  Rachel had brought some photo albums, and we reminisced about how fun college was and how annoying we were back then. (Not sure we are much better now…)

On Sunday, we ventured out to Mass Avenue, took in some shops, ate some ice cream made with the help of liquid nitrogen, and Power posed by the Indy sign. 

         

We came back for some tasty food tour leftovers before parting ways and heading home.  We decided we should do this more frequently than once every 20 years or so.  Friendships are good things.