Sunday, Aug. 23.
Today was son’s day to haul mom and pop around without kids (who didn’t particularly like the idea of daddy taking their new best friends away, but, after some compassionate moments with the little ones, we made our way to Indianapolis and the Motor Speedway the whole world knows about… I have no idea of how many of the races here I’ve watched on TV, but I’d guess it’s about 46 or 47.… Just about every race since we came to this country…
It was thrilling for me to see all the winning cars, the pictures, the trophies, and all the stuff that goes along with the racing mindset (which you almost have to have, in order to enjoy this kind of thing).
Luanne, who’s been to a few NASCAR races with me, enjoys the thunder and excitement of the race as much as I do, but maybe not all the paraphernalia in a racing museum? She was a trooper, though, and endured all the ahhs and oohs as we made our way through the maze…
On the way home, Stein took us through some incredible neighborhoods (which he has done every time we’ve been out) with homes in the 5,000 to 30,000 square foot range…
Unbelievable is the word for it…
I, personally, have never been to a place that has as many “super mansions” as this place…
Seems like every other neighborhood is infested with money someone didn’t have the faintest idea of how to use wisely… Take a look at the pictures…
http://picasaweb.google.com/Kjell.and.Luanne/WHITESTOWNINDIANAPOLISMOTORSPEEDWAYAUG23242009#
By the way, I deleted over half of the homes I took shots of… After all, this Blog is not an advertisement for the Street of Dreams… Right? Right… But I did want to show you some of these monstrosities, just so you can have a taste of the ritzier side of Indianapolis.
The evening was actually fairly quiet… School day tomorrow…. So, after a great dinner, it was time for the old folks to scoot back to the trailer, and for the kids to do whatever kids do after Grandma and Grandpa disappears… Probably get back to normal, huh?
Monday, Aug. 24
Hailey first, then Reese, and then Hannah knocked on our door this morning, wanting to say goodbye before heading off to school… Well, Hannah isn’t old enough yet for kindergarten, so she just wanted to knock on the door to see if she‘d be let in… Of course…. All of them are welcome any time of the day, and that’s basically what they’ve done… Taken up residence in the trailer…
It’s neat to have grandma show you new games, and play old ones with you for hours on end, or to just explore the nooks and crannies, even, maybe, do homework (one at a time, of course, because of the Noise Ordinance)… Oh yeah, it’s great to have a new doll house in the neighborhood!
And it’s great to have a son like Stein, who saw that Grandpa could do with a bit of a break, so he took me down to Campingworld, about 35 miles away, where I bought a new handle for my sewer valve (which broke off the other day)…. Came home and found that it didn’t fit… Oh, well… Have to exchange it at the next Campingworld we run into…
As usual, Stein took me through some neighborhoods where there were nothing but huge homes of every shape and size… They are very interesting to look at, but, for the life of me, I have no idea why people have any need for such monstrosities… And I’ll leave it at that…
Had another superb dinner, and then the kids got their swimsuits on, and the kids and I biked over to the swimming pool, while the others walked…
It was so much fun seeing them frolic in the water, you wouldn’t believe it… All three of them jumped right in without even testing the temp (in my opinion, it was pretty cool)… And they kept going in and out until us grownups got tired of watching them, and hauled them home…
One major hiccup after we got home… Hailey saw Reese biking without holding his hands on the handles, and, of course, she had to try it as well… Didn’t turn out… Fell and scraped her little body up pretty good, but not life threatening, thank goodness, so, I guess she came away from the ordeal with a lesson learned, but learned the hard way…
That’s it for tonight…. Tomorrow Lu and I are taking only the kids to The Children’s Museum, which, I hear, is fabulous…
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