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| We biked about 6 miles to get downtown to the Canal trail |
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| This is one of the many free outdoor spaces that are detailed at www.WhiteRiverStatePark.com |
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| Iconic picture of the Indianapolis Skyline. |
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| The music was held outside under the sails at the Christel DeHaan Family Terrace |
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| The band was very entertaining
Below is a video of the band....check it out
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| On the way we found a nice Thai Place to eat |
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| The next Morning we checked out the downtown area and found this carrousel |
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| Zora was kind enough to pose for a picture |
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| Notice Zac not participating in the carrousel fun |
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| After that we headed down to the old Ohio State Prison where the movie Shawshank Redemption was filmed. |
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| They said that the movie is what saved the prison from demolition. |
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| This was how most of it looked with a bunch of peeling paint |
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| This is the chapel....Notice Zora leading the ceremony? |
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| We are looking out from the Pulpit. Must have been the best place in the Prison |
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| 2 bunks a sink and a toilet. |
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| 6 floors of cells |
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| peeled paint everwhere |
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| Shower room |
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| This area was redone for the movie set of Air Force One. The prison was the set for the Russian scenes |
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| After that we used a restaurant.com and yelp rating cross reference to visit Doc's Café. |
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| For dinner that evening we went to Rayz On The Bay. |
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| This was pretty much the car action in the back. We had a big van to ride in. |
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| The next day we boarded the Ferry and headed to Put in Bay, Ohio. It is about a 15 minute ferry ride to an island. |
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| There were tons of people heading to the island (16 busloads from Detroit, we later learned). |
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| We started off on a hiking trail....they painted all the rocks orange? |
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| Everybody got hungry so we stopped off for lunch |
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| Next stop was a tour of the worlds largest geode......it is a cave where you go inside of a geode. The geode was made by the pressure of the glaciers they said. |
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| You can see how big the crystals were |
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| Nothing but giant crystals! Well, it IS the largest known Celestite geode in the world. |
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| Then we headed off to the Admiral Perry National Peace Monument. We were treated to some re-enactors. See below for the video. |
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| This shows the actual Admiral Perry Memorial. A decisive battle in 1812 was fought and won here. Now it is a peace memorial celebrating the peace forged from the war of 1812. |
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| On this day the downtown area of Put In bay was a Giant packed party. |
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| Lots of cops |
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| Zac got a huge pile of ribs for dinner |
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| First stop was Big Lug's Canteen |
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| Zora got shrimps |
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| This is an eggplant salad |
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| loaded sweet potato fries |
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| Carmel and Indianapolis both have publicly funded bike shares, neither has allowed the private bike shares yet. |
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| On the way back we stopped by a beautiful park |
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| See the goldfish? |
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| First Friday is when the little art workshops open up for tours around Indianapolis. These are usually in old factories or other cheap places to rent. They fix up their little space within a building as big as a city block. |
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| Half of the fun is that you meet artists that just do this for a hobby and they are really fun people to meet. |
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| They can turn an old hall into a cool gallery |
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| People really get into first Fridays |
