Vacation

In 2007, the week before my Junior year of school, our youth group went on a trip to Indianapolis to compete in a competition called Fine Arts. Indianapolis is an interesting place. I've been in Montgomery most of my life so I'm used to being able to drive ten minutes to get anywhere. This city was much bigger, and had much more life than home did. We went to the Colts stadium for the competition, which was absolutely huge. There were probably over 20000 people there and no matter where you went the hallways were packed. We made our way around the city, going to the Hard Rock Cafe and the Rainforest Cafe. The mall there was literally across the street from the stadium, so whenever we had time between competing we could just go over there and walk around. Indianapolis was an amazing trip because it was a way to get out of the house and the comforts of home for a week, which was something I didn't get to do very often. I remember we had to stop at a terrible hotel on the way up there, and the rooms smelt of smoke and oranges, and the front desk ran out of towels and had to give us floor mats instead, but we didn't care. It was the liberation from our parents that mattered, and the freedom we gained there was like gold to us. In one week, we'd be back at home, gearing up for a new school year.