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| Colin and I are enjoying the morning. It's TGIF and it will be a better weather day, we think. The pets are around, puppy is mewling because he can't wait to get fed. Max is a quiet one now but I'm suspecting he'll erupt in a volley of barking once Dad is awake and has stirred about in the house. Our menu is a sacrosanct thing so we won't reveal it. If you smell anything lovely it's close but not quite, haha. I have some errands to run and Colin will be doing something else as well. Dad and the dogs and I will check out something in the far beyond of Lafayette, beyond the bridge that spans the Wabash River. The Wabash River is a landmark around here. I cannot say much about it, but there are other bridges that span the Wabash, like the Harrison bridge which comes out of the Purdue area (University) which is the street they call Union. Union stretch beyond Purdue and goes across the railroad tracks - there's a few exits to go into town, one of which is 3rd street but before that there's an exit into the Levee which is a largish mall but it's all outside. The shops include the Creamery (where they serve stone cold ice cream), the Panera restaurant, the Chinese restaurants (one of which serves wraps, if you can believe a Chinese wrap?), a beauty salon named Evan Todd (which is rather a lot of money but they do spa massages, colouring of hair, nails and Aveda moisturizers, hair treatments, makeup and the like. Being a Saturday it might be filled with girls who are getting ready for a wedding (Saturdays are wedding bridal parties) which is fun but gets a bit crowded. Then they also have other shops like Starbucks (which used to be near the end of the mall but has morphed into a new building which seems to have a cramped parking lot (as they tend to have them) and rather weird people who stay there endlessly looking fierce over coffee as they contemplate the nubile coeds who come in before and after their Purdue classes. Then there's the Sparkletone dry cleaners, the Rubia Flower shop - which was a lovely place I thought when I arranged with them some flower arrangement for a girl friend who was getting hitched. Then they have the nice Hotel, can't remember which hotel chain, might be Holiday Inn. Next to which is the Verizon building. There's a small walkway across the street nearby to a fountain and then beyond is the bridge cross walk where tourist can make a few memories with a cell phone camera, creating selfies. There's a small ice skating park nearby as well, which I've not gone to, but it's nice for the teens and other brave people who can muster the ice skating balancing act. I'd not done this in my life and will not as I'm not good at keeping balance, but I am told that speed conquers teeter toterring problems. Sort of like biking which even though I tried have failed miserably at it. Mostly due to having been confronted with huge dogs who were neighbors of mine and I decided not to bike any more. I also have visions of 'wiping out' as they say and hitting the pavement with my fiz. The lot behind the levee mall (it's really a strip mall but more glorified due to architecture and tenants) is another more run of the mill one which houses (or housed) the bicycle store and a Chinese grocery (or two. The one Chinese grocery has a small restaurant in it which I've been to and I have to confess they forgot the salt in the recipes they made so I did not return. The other grocery has all sorts of packages of stuff they put into a boiling pot of water to make eatable noodles, and others which are also seasonings for any recipe in an Asian household. They hardly speak English so it's good to at least have the right change (they don't take credit cards), and then toddle off feeling relieved that you've got what you wanted to buy. Then there's a movie house too, which I've been to a few times. There I watched the movie about Jesus Christ and another movie which had cowboys and space ships. I have not gone to watch a lot of movies. I rather go with a person to share a popcorn with, and the only one around is Dad, and he's quite unhappy to sit in a movie theatre for too long due to images of some bad person who'd invade the place and gun everyone down. So no movies for the rest of my life, I think. I do have YouTube and the TV so never fear. Then back to bridges. Well the bridge called Harrison also peels off to ninth street where it's got a hodge podge of buildings, some still standing and some looking as though it needed a revision of sorts. The church there called St Boniface is something of a historical thing but all I can remember is that it had a German background. Then behind it are other non-Catholic churches which I have not looked into much. There are other things to see on 9th street which I'd say is a few miles down from the church - one of which the Lafayette Country Club and Golf Course. I made a video of this landmark to raise some money to make a real video log about Lafayette and West Lafayette. Those videos were on YouTube but they've been taken down. Must fly, Mary |
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