White River State Park

Today we decided to venture downtown to the White River State Park and see what it had to offer. After all my years of living in Indianapolis, I've never taken advantage of all the city has to offer me. I've never really taken a nice walk along the canal or gone to the Indiana State Museum. Today was the day and the kids had a great time. You can rent paddleboats or bikes to go along the canal. First Brooke said she wanted to do the paddleboats and changed her mind when we got to the rental place. So we got on a surrey and off we went!


Taking a break!

A view of some of the city
A mommy duck and her babies

When we were done with the surrey, Brooke wanted to go on the paddleboats. We said we'd have to do that another day. Our legs were tired!!

The Indiana State Museum is right on the canal so we decided to stop in there for a bit and cool off. It really wasn't that exciting. Not a whole lot for the kids. Brooke and Charlotte went there at Thanksgiving because they have a train and Santa Claus. Brooke wanted to go see that, but she didn't understand why it wasn't still there.

We did a little fishing,

sat in a wig wam,
looked at the earth,

and saw some big animals.
Glad it was free!

Then we capped off our day with a dip in the pool!


Just the way to wear out the kids! It was a great day!