What a great day we had today. While Kory was busy working at Wesleyan HQ, Jess and I headed back downtown to enjoy the White River State Park – mainly the canal portion of the park. It was a beautiful day to walk the entire 10 and a half blocks of the canal walkway. We stopped and ate lunch at Subway and ate right on the water! Beautiful! After lunch we finished our walk and headed back north to the Castleton Square Mall where we enjoyed the air conditioning thoroughly.

While at the mall, we bumped into David Zigler – on of the Brothers and current Indianapolis pastor! It was great visiting with him for a while before heading to Starbucks to fulfill a promise I made to my wonderful wife. More pictures here.

After Starbucks, we headed to Brad and Heidi LeRoy’s home where we had a wonderful 2-hour visit!

We enjoyed getting to know their children – Logan and Lexa very much! I worked with Brad in the Youth Department as an intern when I first finished at Indiana Wesleyan and he and Heidi have continued to be great friends ever since. They are currently pastoring at the Crux church here in Indianapolis – where I used to attend when I lived here! More pictures of the LeRoy family here.

After our visit with the LeRoys, Jess and I came back to pick Kory up for dinner at Charlestons – a favorite restaurant of mine here in Indy!

Jess and I enjoyed a leisurely trip to the Indianapolis Children’s Museum this afternoon. We spent about 5 hours in this very hands-on museum. Surprisingly, we never even had enough time in 5 hours to see everything!

We did, however, see two shows in the Planetarium, and a Willy Wonka drama!

By the time 5PM rolled around, and the museum closed, we were ready to be done with hundreds of bad-attitude kids, screaming babies, and numerous “counts to three” everywhere we turned. Want to learn parenting methods? Visit the Indy Children’s museum! Sheeeesh!

After the museum, we headed back to Castleton for dinner at Red Lobster. I had enough popcorn and fried shrimp to last me another year-or-so (until the NEXT visit to the world’s greatest seafood restaurant).

It was yet another great day to enjoy with my wife.

More pictures from today’s adventure here.

Today we slept in, ate some cereal and then headed downtown again – this time to the Indianapolis Museum of Art & the Lilly Estate.

We had a great time visiting both of these historic Indianapolis landmarks and of course took some pictures – available here.

Tonight, we’ve invited a couple Indianapolis friends over for a cookout here at Kory’s. We’ll be cooking up some delicious brats and burgers and enjoying the company of Mr. Chris Magee and Mr. Brandon Schenck (if he can get here).

Of course the camera will be close by to capture memories!

Jess, Kory, and I enjoyed an evening at the Symphony tonight!

We arrived at Conner Prairie at just the perfect time to get good seats and enjoy our Subway supper!

The Symphony started at 8:00 and the finale of fireworks was amazing!

Definitely a fun time had by all – even with the HUGE amounts of booze being consumed by various couples all around us. We also had to constantly “turn away” when we would catch said “boozers” making out all around us in their various stages of being clothed. I guess “culture” includes listening to the Symphony AND drinking it up!

More pictures here.

We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at the Indianapolis Museum and Botanical Gardens this morning and afternoon.

We’re trying to rest up a bit before heading back out into the heat of the afternoon. Tonight, we head to Conner Prairie for what is called the “Symphony on the Prairie” – it’s going to be super special. Fireworks behind a symphonic orchestra – what could be more “culture-ing” for a guy like me?!

Check out the pictures from the zoo at my flickr account by clicking here.