Trip to Indianapolis

My sons, Timothy, 18, Daniel, 17, and Joseph, 13, and I went to Indianapolis on Tuesday, December 27. It's about 2 hours from where we live. We had planned to meet friends at the zoo at 10 AM. We didn't realize until right before we arrived that the zoo doesn't open in December until 12 NOON. So we went to the Indianapolis Children's Museum which opened at 10. We used Christmas money from an old college friend to buy a family pass good for a year. We went to the Dinosphere and a few exhibits on the LL then up to the food court for the boys to eat. Then we headed to the zoo, hoping to meet our friends at noon. I checked the boys into the zoo, then went back to sit in the van and eat my Nutrisystem lunch and keep an eye out for Jenni and her teens. Never did spot them. Turns out that Jenni had been sick for the past few days and lost track of the time. We will try to get together in Indy some other time. We walked all over the zoo. Many of the animals were inside and we were not able to see them, but there were plenty there to keep us busy. Then we went to the Botanical Gardens and did the Scavenger Hunt. We didn't think we would ever find the Birdsnest Fern, but we finally found it along the side wall on the ground. We were fascinated by the pronghorn fern and the bears' paw fern and if I had not been so tired it might have occurred to me to take a photo of them. I voted on a few of the poinsettas on display, but many of them looked all the same. We finally decided we were too tired and we decided to go home. It was a very good, but footsore day! I sure do love spending time with my boys. I got a States' birds and flowers puzzle at the Botanical Gardens' store and took it over to my mom's about 9:30 Tuesday night and we started working on the 1000 piece picture, but it got late and I went home to bed. This morning I worked on getting the photos processed and walking my 2 miles and writing Christmas thank you's and getting my sons to do the same. It is late now and I need to go to bed. Hope all is well with you!
Missy