Indianapolis Skyline. The Canal Walk is to the right.
We didn’t realize it or even think of it. We’re just not football fans. Our hotel is right across the street from Colts Stadium. You know — Colts, the Baltimore football team that Irsay moved out of town on Mayfower vans one cold December day, literally by the dawn’s early light. Then the NFL wouldn’t let us keep the team name Colts. Baltimore eventually got revenge by stealing the Browns from Cleveland. But the NFL said Cleveland could keep their team’s name. To this day, some Baltimore football fans refuse to call the team the Colts, referring to them as the “Irsays”.
DO NOT look at the flowers!
Other than that, plus more heat and humidity, it was another near-perfect day. Danita wanted to go to an Indian museum, but I didn’t want to spend the day indoors. So we went to the zoo, which also has some aquarium exhibits, and a dolphin show, and a botanical garden, which had some Lego statues, for which this was the last day. So we watched the dolphin show (hurry — it starts in 10 minutes), then saw the Lego statues before lunch. It was funny to see everybody in the gardens focusing almost exclusively on colored plastic. The best thing was, we found some indoor, air conditioned tables where we could have our picnic lunch.
A fountain in the gardens with whimsical water jet figures
After that, we went to the zoo part of the zoo. It was hot, hot, hot. But it is a very nice zoo. We have the feeling it’s smaller than the Baltimore zoo. But it’s fairly new and what they do, they do well. I also got this really cool coffee cup. Of course it says “Indianapolis Zoo” on one side. Of course it has a design of the elephant on the other side. But the way cool thing is that the handle looks exactly like an elephant’s trunk. It’s going in the featured section of my collection for sure.
We had dinner at a restaurant called The Weber Grill. It was good, it wasn’t cheap, and there was plenty of meat. After that we walked part of the canal walk.
Indianapolis Steam Clock (I shoot ’em, I don’t expain ’em)
Turn the crank and push the button to hear some Indiana history