Monday, April 23, 2012

Pardon the Hiatus

It's been a few months since I wrote anything. Perhaps I felt too busy.  Perhaps I was lazy. (more likely) Maybe there was nothing to write about. (not even close)  In any event, apologies to my two loyal readers.  Most probably haven't noticed.

Having gotten that off my chest...

Let's step back to February for a moment.  You may know of a big football event that was held in Indy back then.  Call it #SBIndy for you Twitter folks.  I had the opportunity, being a "local", to take in a lot of the atmosphere, and a couple of the events leading up to the big game.

I've shown the cars, since this is Indy, and there's a big race here too.  But I got another opportunity when these two came downtown with me to check out the sites.
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Since they know I love my Broncos, they went to see the Indy cars with me again. I happened to be wearing an old-school Broncos sweatshirt, and since this was months before the Broncos picked up Peyton (sorry Colts fans), I had to...
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We got to see a lot of other cool stuff, including live music at two different stages, thousands of people, where I'm certain a hundred celebrities were blending in since we spotted none, and
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With the heaters they installed down the middle of the village and all of the people wandering, you couldn't tell it was 25 degrees out. It felt more like 28.

Since we were downtown, and parked near my building, I treated the kids to an area favorite, Acapulco Joe's. What meal is complete without salsa out of a squirt bottle?
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It was a great day in the village, and I hope the kids had as much fun as I did.  Not to worry, there was still more to come.

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