The 14th Anniversary of Jim's 21st Birthday

The morning started a little later than normal for us. Jim and I were out pretty late with all the other grade school parents whooping it up while the grandmas and grandpas of Carmel tucked the kiddos into bed. We did bid on and "won" the basket that Evie's class created. It was called Spring Break in Indiana. There were lots of gift cards for fun things to do in the area.

After we recovered from the previous evening, we went to church and then went out for lunch at Buca's.
We stuffed ourselves silly with lots of delicous food but still had room for dessert of a giant cupcake and some tiramisu.

Annalise also visited both the men's and women's bathrooms. Mom and Dad ate cold food.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for taking us out to lunch (and see how well my Salon Hair held up over night? I wonder if I can get one more day out of it)

After lunch, we walked to the Soldiers and Sailors monument in downtown. It's the one that is smack downtown with the big roundabout in it.

Inside the monument is the Col. Eli Lilly Civil war museum complete with cannons and a place to take ye olde timey picture.

We learned that we could climb to the top of the monument for free, but everyone in our group decided to take the elevator instead.

Here we are at the top overlooking the home of the Colts and the Pacers and a bunch of other buildings south of Downtown.

If you look really closely, you can see our house, 13 miles north of this site. The girls said they could see Canada.

Evie signed her name to the board of people who made it to the top of Indiana.