I flew to Indianapolis to watch Pretty Girl perform in the DCI World Finals at Lucas Oil Stadium. I went with some very good friends and had a blast with my Roomie watching the most interesting late night television on TLC (I can't believe the reality stuff on there!). We stayed on Arizona time even though we were in a time zone that was 3 hours later.
Here is the stadium. It was pretty impressive but they could use some lessons on crowd control.
We stayed across the street from the stadium and the downtown area started a block north of us. There was a mall and many, many other shops and restaurants (and drinks!).
It was fun sitting on the patio of Alcatraz Brewing Company cuz we saw a lot of members hanging out downtown. Two of these people have lived at my house at one time or another.
The downtown area had several horse and buggies to move people around. Kinda like Central Park.
Teal Sound was warming up in Monument Park (I think that was the name of it).
This was some sort of daycare outing. If you look real close you can see that all the little munkins were tied together.
Indianapolis is also the capital.
The city also has this cool fountain/museum.
It's also where the Mounted Police water their horses. These horses were huge!
The city is also home to White River State Park. It's a very cool park where the zoo is, a museum that has art on the outside as well as the inside and waterways where you can rent paddle boats. It also had this park bench with this odd green bug that I made my Roomie sit on. You can tell she didn't really want to.
There were a lot of related festivities going on in the park including Purdue University's Drum.
At World Finals members are allowed to perform individual and ensemble performances for medals. Pretty Girl and Kate performed in the category of Dance Ensemble. They won the gold medal for a perfect score, which, apparently, has never been done before. I couldn't be there so I had to take the pic from her Facebook page, hence the size.
After the Medal Ceremony is the Age Out Ceremony. That's when all the members of all the corps go down on the field to wish everyone well as this was their last year to be in drum corps. There is also a tradition that they "leave something on the field", a symbol of no regrets. Pretty Girl left her false eyelashes. Anyone who knows Pretty Girl knows this was the perfect thing to leave behind.
So the corps did better than last year, which is good.
Whew! That was a long post and that was only half of my summer vacation. The second half I'll save for another time.
2 comments:
Yay you posted! And it was a good one! =) Job well done!
~Pretty Girl
Looks like a good trip - well done finally posting :) Love ya!
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