Indianapolis is My Home

07
Jul

A Good Indianapolis Area Weekend

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Carmel, Surrounding Indianapolis

The 4th of July weekend is over and it’s back to work for me and just about everything else.

I felt like I was all over the area this past weekend but had a great time visiting with family, extended family and an old college acquaintance. Perhaps the biggest adjustment for this weekend was that our kids weren’t with us. They left on Wednesday to visit their aunt for a couple of days down in Portsmouth, OH.

Friday I slept in for quite awhile for the first time in a LONG time. It felt wonderful. There have been a lot of late nights lately and they’ve come with regularity for the past number of months.

When we did get up we got ready and headed to my parent’s house out in Stringtown, IN, which is just east of Greenfield. Met my brother and his family there for a good meal of my mom’s wonderful cooking and a number of hours just visiting and hanging out with each other. Again, weird because my two nieces were missing our kids not being there. Since it was the 4th, we went into Greenfield and watched the fireworks display at the high school. Surprisingly they were a good display for a small town. It’s also probably the closest I’ve been to and under the fireworks as they were going off.

Saturday morning we slept in again (two days in a row!!!) before we headed down to Brown County to visit with my cousin and his family. They rented a cabin and will be staying through the week. We had another great meal, played Hillbilly Golf and had some good conversation. Went into downtown Nashville for some ice-cream and to walk around a bit.

Sunday after going to church and running lights for our worship services, I drove up to Carmel and met with a friend from college. Friend probably gives too much credit for our relationship in the college days. He was a freshman and I was a junior or senior. We were both involved in student government and knew each other, but didn’t really hang out. There are a variety of reasons we scheduled to meet yesterday, but what was intended to be an hour or so conversation turned into 10 hours of talk, business discussion and a little bit of Halo on the original Xbox.

As I stated before though. Back to work.

The point of this story though is that there’s loads to do in and around Indiana, the key is having friends and family and a willingness not to worry about it so much and just go out and have fun.

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