Trying to keep my life in writing I wanted to put this past weekend into words. Friday night was your basic booze filled frenzy. We started the evening with a "pregame" at my buddies house. We played beer pong, we ate some monkey bread that his roommate had made which was amazing, we played more beer pong, we even did some shots (have I ever told you how much I enjoy shots.)
After Kyle and I proved our dominance at beer pong by not losing a game we wandered out to a bar. This was a 'secret' bar that is above a pizzeria and you have to walk through the restaurant to find the bar on the second level. There weren't many people there (I guess the secret is working) but we had a blast with the bartender as we kept ordering the Rainbow Shots. He lined up 9 shot glasses, filled them with a clear liquor, and then proceeded to gently fill a shaker with multiple colored liqueurs. He then poured from the shaker straight down the line into all 9 shot glasses and each shot was a idfferent color of the rainbow. It was entertaining and the shots weren't bad. After the secret bar, we crossed the street and ordered some beers at Chumleys. We were all getting hungry so some nachos and pizza were in line as we drank our beers. We made it home safely and quickly fell asleep.
Saturday morning came way too early but my dad was coming down for some basketball fun as we had tickets to see my Indiana Hoosiers play at Assembly Hall. He had never been to a game and what a year for me to drag him down there, when they are ranked #1 in the nation and playing so well so far this season.
He made it down just before noon. It was such a beautiful day that we decided to go on a little run. Althought I was slightly hungover, the run felt great and we went for just over half an hour on a run down the Monon Trail. After showering, we drove down to pick up Abby and Zach before finally heading towards Bloomington.
Our first stop was at Upland Brewery. We sat outside because the sun was shining and it was close to 65 degrees outside. I quickly ordered some appetizers as I was reaching "cranky" stage of my hunger. We had some fries, hot pretzels, and beers as we enjoyed the beautiful day in Bloomington, Indiana. After we had a few beers I ordered the spicy reuben which was quite delicious. We then moved our party to Kirkwood Avenue, the main strip through Bloomington. My dad stopped to buy an IU hat and then we did a quick tour through the edge of campus before returning to the bar previously named Uncle Festers now known as Dunkirk. We sat on the upstairs patio and watched all the Hoosier fans walk around below.
My dad and I then walked up to Assembly Hall to see the #1 team in the nation take on Coppin State. Coppin State is in Baltimore, MD and their mascot is the Eagles. We found our seats and watched the teams warmup. The game started slowly for the Hoosiers but we definitely outclassed the Eagles and flexed our muscle in the second half with a strong performance on both offense and defense. We also loved watching the Eagles player #4 because he had 3 airballs and we were laughing pretty good whenever he would get the ball in hopes that he would shoot again.
After the game, we walked back to Kirkwood to meet up with our group that was now at Upstairs bar playing some darts. We had to drive back to Indy so we didn't stay long.
On Sunday, we slept in after my dad left town early but we had to go to Megan's parents' house to help put up some Christmas decorations. After helping get the tree up and some lights on the house we ventured back home to watch the end of the Indianapolis Colts game which was a thriller as Andrew Luck lead them on a furious comeback. We then met up with my Uncle Bobby, Aunt Karen, cousins Bobby and Louie, my grandad, Abby and Zach for dinner at Charlestons in Carmel. We had some great conversations about teachers and school, about how at Grandad's school in Columbus, St. Charles, all the teachers had PHDs. It is great that we are able to see Grandad more often and that we are becoming closer with our cousins.
