Cha-ching, Indianapolis!
This is actually the Zaharakos, in Columbus, Indiana. It's a restored ice cream and soda parlor from the 1900s!
It was originally used in the Parisian World's Fair for Mexico's pavilion. It was shipped to Columbus after the fair.
Disney tried to buy it, but the owners refused to sell it.
It was recently restored, and has its own automatic, coin-operated organ!
I appreciated it as a Victoriana fag, but also, I've been cultivating that "Steampunk Sweet Shop" idea.
Pretty lamps...
Columbus is a cute town!
Unflattering photo of trying to look normalfaggish. It was hot, but the outfit looks cuter with the sleeves down.
We started the day by going to Columbus and walking about there for a bit. It's a pretty awesome town if you're into architecture, but perhaps I'm spoiled by Savannah, because I was just kinda "Eh, okay." But the parlor was AWESOOOME!
After that, we went to the nearby outlet mall and got my pots and pans for a killer deal! They're really nice, too. :3 After that, we drove on to our Hotel, dropped off our stuff, and went to see Ponyo! It was just dad and I and another parent and their younger daughter, so that was nice. Dad really liked Ponyo, which I'm really glad about!
Then we went to Cheeseburger in Paradise; Yummy burgers, but they had, uh "Live Music," that was loud and TERRIBLE ;; At least the food was tasty!
Anyway, next day!
DAY TWO~
DINOSAAAURS
We went to the Indianapolis Children's Museum! I went there several times as a kid and always had fun. So it was awesome to be six again for a while and play with the dinosaurs and go on the carousel and otherwise be juvenile. :D We also saw the King Tut exhibit, which was AMAZING, but really crowded in closed-quarters. I kept getting stepped on. :/ BUT WHATEVER. FUNTIMES.
So there was a garden outside, and, well...
I have conquered the Parthenon!
AND EATEN THE COLOSSEUM
AND RIDDEN THE SPHYNX
AND SPIED ON ELVES (Adee's pictures will be in a different post. :D)
I was already pretty exhausted by this point, but we went on ahead to the Art Museum. It was kind of eh... Not because it was a bad museum! Not at all! Gorgeous setting, great pieces of art, all of those good things. I think I was just so tired I didn't really appreciate it as much. :C
What was worth the price of admission to ME was the exhibit on flowers used in fashion!
HNNNNNGH
dkfmlsfms Can I have the skirt part please?
And just, this. All of that. Yes.
But even COOLER was an exhibit on fashion through the ages, with MINIATURE SAMPLES from each era that you could PLAY WITH!! They were about double what SDs are, I think, but I took COPIOUS pictures (I'll only show you a few), and they were completely accurate, down to the underpinnings, and they encouraged you to take the gowns apart to see how they were made.
Opened to show the corset; there were panniers, too.
Victorian Bustle Gown...
Complete with bustle cage!
Regency/Empire gown construction! I can't wait to sew this for one of my kids.
As they say, worth the price of admission! ...except admission to the museum was free... Oh well. You get my drift.
Anyway, we saw everything there, and then scampered out to the accompanying Lilly House to see the gardens!
Flowers outside the aptly named, Lilly House! (it belonged to the Lilly family- as in, Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company.) There were lots of bees! But they were pretty docile.
Some of these are Dahlias...
The Lilly House is a really pretty, historic house; unfortunately, it was closed to tours that day. :C
But thankfully, the sprawling gardens were open! (The Formal Gardens were being used for a wedding. These are the Ravine gardens.)
On the way back, we found this fuzzy! It was tiny, only about as long as my thumbnail. Anyone know what it is?
Speaking of buglies, there also lots of spiders and spider-webs. Yeeek!
DAY THREE~!
THE ZOOOOO!!
GIRAAAAAFFES
and a BABY GIRAAAAFFEEE
And MEERKAAATS
Also somewhere I hadn't been in a long time! And the last zoo I went to was in Tokyo, so... :D It was AWESOME, even if I was a bit tired.
I felt pretty much like this too. :|
We explored the whole zoo and I saw a RED PANDA and a MINIATURE DEER and I watched the Lemurs for like half an hour and TIGERS and Lionses and and and. 8D Then we saw the DOLPHIN SHOOOW and I PETTED A SHARK!! 8D
IT WAS AWESOME. Afterwards, we went to the botanical gardens next door and I got pictures of flowers, as I am wont to do.
Lotuses out in the botanical gardens...
And these are "water hyacinths!"
And that's all! Adee's pictures next. It was a BLAST, but now I'm headfirst into packing for SCAD!! OH MY!! I can't believe how soon I leave.
Also, space bags are amazing.
Toodles~!
XOXOXO
~Lilly