Mini Vacation to Indianapolis

This past week, Tom had a couple of days off of work, which resulted in a mini vacation to Indianapolis!


First stop was to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. When we arrived we discovered 2 things: 1. This place has it own 4 level covered free parking garage! Who knew a children's museum needed their own parking garage! 2. During most of month of November adults are the same price as kids and of course under 2 was free! We haven't even entered the museum and we already love it

Once inside the museum, we weren't disappointed in the least. The museum has 4 levels of fun hands-on exhibits for all ages. Their is so much to see and do including but not limited to: a train exhibit, space exhibit, dinosaur exhibit, a play-space designed for children 5 and under, a mirror maze, 2 water tables, a super hero exhibit and don't forget they have their own food court. I sound like a comical for this children's museum - sorry but it was just that amazing!

After the museum we swam in the hotel's pool to get some of the energy out and then watched Peter Pan!


The next morning we went to the The Indianapolis Museum of Art (which was free!) We were told this Art Museum has a collection of over 50,000 works of art. We believed it, their was American Art, African Art, Asian Art, Contemporary Art, their was even an exhibit about chairs. We were excited to see the oil painting Landscape at Saint-Rémy (Enclosed Field with Peasant) by Vincent Van Gogh.

After a brief stop at McDonald's (its a family rule we only go there on vacations if the kids are good!) We headed to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where the Indy 500 takes place! In the Museum their are quite a few cars displayed - Our son kept looking for #95 Lightening Mcqueen-of course it wasn't there but he had fun looking! We also were able to take a bus tour around the actually race track where we saw the famous brick start and finish line!

The whole way home we talked about how much fun we had and how well behaved our two kids were!