New Years Trip to Indy

We had a really nice New Years. We left early, (Mom/Nanny watch River) we drove to Indy and spent the whole day (about 6 hours) at the Children's Museum. Simone always wants to go to the dinosaur exhibit first. We usually spend quite a bit of time there. Then we were off to the Planetarium to catch "The sky above Mr. Roger's Neighborhood". Simone was a little unsure of this as it would be a little dark, but she loved the whole experience. Then we went to the carousel and she got a horse that went up and down (not all horses do on the carousel). She waved to daddy each time we went by. We went to the Artic showcase, where there is (pretend) ice fishing, an ice castle with slide and a station where you can make reindeer ears.

Now clad in "Comet" ears, we head to lunch for pizza and burgers. After lunch we try the lilly theater which was playing "Lion the witch and the wardrobe". Simone didn't like it too much as it really did have too much dialogue so we slipped out early....she also didn't like the white witch (who didn't seem that scary to me....but I'm not a 5 year old). The adventure continued to the science works where you can build dams and float your boat and build/dig and explore.

Those were the highlights, the children's museum has so much. We then went to the cheesecake factory for dinner and finished off the evening in the hotel swimming pool, which brought much joy to our 5 year old girl.

New years day we had a wonderful visit with Jen Jackson....and then we were able to slip up to Layfayette and visit my good friend Mary who just had a baby. A mom can sometimes forget that they were really that small once. It was wonderful to see Mary and visit awhile.

The trip ended up being less expensive as my parents gave us some gas cards for Christmas so we didn't have to pay to fill up the tank.

It was a really nice time away!