The rehearsal dinner was excellent. We had a family style Italian dinner, not far from church. The canaloni and spaghetti were to die for. After the rehearsal, we went to the Rock Bottom brewery: http://www.rockbottom.com/RockBottomWeb/RBR/Home.aspx for a beer. I can't say that the beer was good, because it was not. But at least it was expensive.
The next day (Friday) was the day of the wedding, and I was pretty busy. I had to pick up Chad from the airport, then Tux fittings, haircuts, keeping Chris calm... lots of busy work. Got the church at 5 for the wedding pictures, then had the ceremony, which was beautiful. About 120 people (I am told) showed up, including a huge portion of the Norris clan which I haven't seen in ages. I probably haven't seen Amy (formerly Norris) in probably 15 years, at least.
The reception was awesome. It was at a German restaurant: http://www.rathskeller.com/ Incredible food, amazing beer, and relatively short. I (personally) don't care for receptions that last 4 hours, and people don't know what to do for the last 2 hours. This one was only about 2 and a half hours long. A perfect amount of time. We helped clean up some after the party, then it was off to the restaurants beer garden. I hope, hope hope I make it back to Indy, if for no other reason than to hit up this beer garden again. There were 10-12 imported German beers on tap, and they were all pretty damn amazing. We only managed to get one beer before the bars closed up. (but it was a 32 oz beer). Next stop was a little pub down the street from the church that wasn't great, and we didn't need. Only got a single beer there, and headed back to the hotel to party some more, but ended up going to bed instead... God we're old.
Anyway the next day was a complete blast. We started off by getting up and eating breakfast with Jenny, Travis and Lesley (their new baby) along with Erin and Tiffany at a little cafe close to Jenny and Travis's hotel. Next we got back to the hotel to enjoy the hot tub which was recently fixed. After that we participated in a paddle boat race. Apparently you can rent paddle boats for the downtown "river walk". So Jason, Heather, Bobby and Chad battled Heather, Betsy, Dathan and I. My team stomped their ever loving asses... but man, was it hard work. For lunch we went to a small Irish pub downtown, then to the hero's museum: http://www.heroesmuseum.com/... only two photos, sorry. Click image below:
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After that we played at Jillian's, which is like a Dave and buster's. We ended up winning 3275 tickets (approx) and exchanged them for a fountain that has a "floating" spigot, a remote-controlled fart machine, and two pirate outfits. Cool stuff! :)
For dinner, Heather, Heather, Jason, Jeff and I got some sushi downtown, and then grabbed a beer at the http://www.theram.com/. Excellent, and I mean excellent beer here. Their Hefe was to die for. Went back to the hotel afterward and went to bed.
Got back this afternoon at about 5 pm after playing hours and hours of radio roulette. For those who don't know this awful game here are the rules (some of which we made up)
A turn is defined as a player holding the seek button on the radio without looking at which station it may land on. When the player removes his finger from the radio, the next station that the radio lands on HAS to be listened to, no matter what. The turn ends when the song ends. If you hit the station during a commercial, you have to wait for the next song that plays to end or until you lose the station (unintelligible for 5 seconds). If the station is a "talk" station, then you have to wait until the next commercial, which could be hours.
We invented a point system for the game.
Points are granted as follows. Each player votes on how terrible the "content" of the turn was on a scale of 1 to 10, ten being the worst. Multiply that by the number of minutes (rounding up to 1) the content played on the radio. Then average the scores of all of the players.
For example, with 4 players on a commercial and then a song that lasted for a total time of 6 minutes 12 seconds.
Player 1 votes: 7
Player 2 votes: 5
Player 3 votes: 8
Player 4 votes: 6
7 (points from player 1) * 6 minutes = 42 points
5 * 6 minutes = 30
8 * 6 = 48
6 * 6 = 36
42 + 30 + 48 + 36 = 156 (total points)
156 / 4 (players) = 39 points awarded to that person.
At the end of the game the winner is the person with the most points.
Fun? No, not really... not at all.
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WHAT are you talking about?!? Radio Roulette was the FUNNEST!! :) HA! And I would highly suggest, for those of us that are NOT math fans, that one average the initial 1-10 scale prior to multiplying by the time... at least that's what I thought we meant when we created the scale. Much love, we miss you!
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