We Gave Our Weekend for Tourism

I totally missed blogging about a trip we took in September to Indianapolis and Springfield, Illinois. But, it was a great trip and deserves a mention here.

We drove in a pouring rain to the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis to see the King Tut Exhibit. I remember wanting so badly to see it back in the ’70s, partly because Egypt and mummies fascinated me, but mostly because I had Steve Martin’s A Wild and Crazy Guy album and used to play the crap out of it. (I have no idea why my parents would buy this album for a little kid, but my brother and I used to repeat stuff from it all the time, having no idea what we were even talking about, e.g., “He kept wanting her to sing from her diaphragm. That would take years to learn.”) Anyway, the exhibit totally lived up to all that Steve said.

Show Me the Christmas Lights, Half Pint

We took off right after Thanksgiving dinner and headed to the Show Me state for some Christmas cheer and dorky Little House on the Prairie fangirling. (There was no fanboying, although the male part of our group had a great time.) We were not disappointed on either front. Of course, we also jammed in some presidential stops and even a little frontier fun for good measure.

Vincennes, Indiana: We spent a couple of hours in Vincennes on our way to St. Louis, checking out William Henry Harrison’s home, Grouseland, which is on the grounds of Vincennes University. As you may recall, we visited his creepy grave just down the road from home a few months ago. His house was way better!