I'm not kidding AT ALL when I say that Zeb  asked over 100 times to 'go back to Indiana' as we drove away. And it was more of a high pitched whine mixed with tears and angry grunts.  This kid had waaaay too much fun with his good pal Sam.  We spent the night with our good friends, the Dockters, in Indianapolis. 

I think that Sam qualifies as Zeb's first friend.  They lived directly across the hall from us here in Toledo and Zeb started having playdates at six months.  Their friendship has obviously not waned. They laughed and screamed and giggled and ran and flew until they collapsed with exhaustion.  They shared a bunk bed to go to sleep and seriously stayed up until MIDNIGHT giggling with each other about barbies and tinkerbell?!  I could NOT believe they stayed up so long.

After the race that morning we checked out downtown Indy and met up with some other good friends, the Curtises, who also left Toledo last year.  Hillarie also got to stick around and check out the place.

Indianapolis is one of the coolest cities I've seen. I absolutely loved it.  They have this amazing canal walk downtown and all sorts of fun stuff to see and do.

 
Here are the men with their cool double strollers and rugrats.

And here's tortured Zeb.  We stuck him up high on the tusk of a giant Mastadont sculpture to take a picture and he kind of freaked. We like to torture our chidlren so I snapped a few pictures and then we got him down.

My two favorite parts of the day were:

#1 -going to the top of this monument.

It was hot and stuffy and extremely claustrophobic.  This is a shot of us going up in the elevator. For some reason I love being jammed in elevators and being in rickety scary places.  Plus- we did get to see a great view of the city.

and #2 - this pizza.  I realize I'm not looking at the camera- but look at the Pizza. I LOVE Pizza and this stuff was amazing. I'm sure I was super hungry from running the race that morning- but this stuff was delicious. And eating it on the streets with friends made it all the better.

 After dinner we played around at the monument a bit longer and just enjoyed the perfect weather.  Did I mention that I really love this city? It was probably because we were with such great people- but either way  It was so much fun!

Thanks so much for hosting us Dockters! and for getting together with us Curtises!!  We will be back!!