THe latter half of monday
Monday evening. I'm not sure quite where I left off.
Right now it's Wednesday, around noon, and I am in the business center at the Courtyard Marriott. I have an hour until Josh is done conferencing. I figured this would be a good time to try to recover my blog. My computer is up in the parking garage though, in the trunk of my car, and there it's going to stay, because walking out into the 100 degree-humid-as-hell-feels-like-an-oven outdoors is just not gonna happen. Loading up the car w/two trips had me wondering if I was going to spontaneously combust. I'm surprised I didn't.
So Monday I walked around downtown, sometimes in some ghetto type areas. When I got back to the hotel I relaxed in the hotel room, (I think). But eventually I grew bored, so I did up my makeup and I wandered out into the city again. I headed out south on Second Street, not sure how many blocks I went, but I know it was a block past Liberty Drive. The temps were high, but there was a pretty constant breeze, which made it seem not so bad. I cut over to Fourth Street. Fourth Street is probably the most touristy place downtown and remind me of freemont street in Las Vegas, but only because it's all foot traffic and it's covered overhead, but not by a tv screen, like fremont. Fourth Street is where the starbucks is, as well as the Hard Rock Cafe and other shops and such. Apparently though, monday was a special day because there was a huge line of people and a live band and vendors. As I made my way north I saw that the line of people went into a building and was corded off, so I had to back track, cross to the other side of fourth and go north. Apparently they were giving out Colts posters and the people were standing in line to get them signed. It was some kind of Colts Signing tour. There was a live band playing and lots of people in Colts wear. There was a big air-filled bounce house slide for the kids and other stuff. I wanted to get a pic, but the memory on my phone was full, and I didn't have my camera with me.
Past the Fourth Street Extravaganza was the convention center Josh was at. I kept walking and went back to the hotel. I had intended to get a starbucks, but there was such a massive line inside that I didn't even go in.
When I got back, it was pretty late, like 6:30 or something. THere was a complimentary light dinner and drink specials in the hotel lounge until 7pm, but finally at 6:50 I decided to go down and see if I could score some dinner. When I got there, most everything was already gone, so I ended up having some chip crumbs and salsa. The drink special was a dollar off everything. Which, after the tip, made my amaretto on the rocks just as expensive as going to Granite City--where I don't tip because the amaretto is so ridiculously overpriced.
I texted Josh to let him know where I was, and he called me to tell me he was coming back early, instead of being gone until 8 or 8:30 like originally planned. He met me in the bar. By this time I had made friends with a local businessman named Ross, and the bartender, John. They told me about cool places in the city and what I should see. I like meeting locals, everywhere I go. Once my drink was gone, we headed upstairs, where my lonely little pint of amaretto was waiting. We each managed to get two glasses out of it though, while we watched bad TV and played on our laptops. We went to bed early--10ish because Josh had to get up early. I took some pictures from the balcony of night in Louisville--which I'll have to upload later.
I'm going to post this, and then continue with tuesday in a new blog, so I at least have Monday done !~
Out,
~Carrie
Right now it's Wednesday, around noon, and I am in the business center at the Courtyard Marriott. I have an hour until Josh is done conferencing. I figured this would be a good time to try to recover my blog. My computer is up in the parking garage though, in the trunk of my car, and there it's going to stay, because walking out into the 100 degree-humid-as-hell-feels-like-an-oven outdoors is just not gonna happen. Loading up the car w/two trips had me wondering if I was going to spontaneously combust. I'm surprised I didn't.
So Monday I walked around downtown, sometimes in some ghetto type areas. When I got back to the hotel I relaxed in the hotel room, (I think). But eventually I grew bored, so I did up my makeup and I wandered out into the city again. I headed out south on Second Street, not sure how many blocks I went, but I know it was a block past Liberty Drive. The temps were high, but there was a pretty constant breeze, which made it seem not so bad. I cut over to Fourth Street. Fourth Street is probably the most touristy place downtown and remind me of freemont street in Las Vegas, but only because it's all foot traffic and it's covered overhead, but not by a tv screen, like fremont. Fourth Street is where the starbucks is, as well as the Hard Rock Cafe and other shops and such. Apparently though, monday was a special day because there was a huge line of people and a live band and vendors. As I made my way north I saw that the line of people went into a building and was corded off, so I had to back track, cross to the other side of fourth and go north. Apparently they were giving out Colts posters and the people were standing in line to get them signed. It was some kind of Colts Signing tour. There was a live band playing and lots of people in Colts wear. There was a big air-filled bounce house slide for the kids and other stuff. I wanted to get a pic, but the memory on my phone was full, and I didn't have my camera with me.
Past the Fourth Street Extravaganza was the convention center Josh was at. I kept walking and went back to the hotel. I had intended to get a starbucks, but there was such a massive line inside that I didn't even go in.
When I got back, it was pretty late, like 6:30 or something. THere was a complimentary light dinner and drink specials in the hotel lounge until 7pm, but finally at 6:50 I decided to go down and see if I could score some dinner. When I got there, most everything was already gone, so I ended up having some chip crumbs and salsa. The drink special was a dollar off everything. Which, after the tip, made my amaretto on the rocks just as expensive as going to Granite City--where I don't tip because the amaretto is so ridiculously overpriced.
I texted Josh to let him know where I was, and he called me to tell me he was coming back early, instead of being gone until 8 or 8:30 like originally planned. He met me in the bar. By this time I had made friends with a local businessman named Ross, and the bartender, John. They told me about cool places in the city and what I should see. I like meeting locals, everywhere I go. Once my drink was gone, we headed upstairs, where my lonely little pint of amaretto was waiting. We each managed to get two glasses out of it though, while we watched bad TV and played on our laptops. We went to bed early--10ish because Josh had to get up early. I took some pictures from the balcony of night in Louisville--which I'll have to upload later.
I'm going to post this, and then continue with tuesday in a new blog, so I at least have Monday done !~
Out,
~Carrie