Birthday weekend...part one

My dear friends, Deanna and Denise (twins), have a birthday two days after mine on March 29th. We often do something special to celebrate our birthdays. This year we decided to go to Indianapolis for the weekend.

We drove down on Friday afternoon. I looked at magazines and fell asleep to my ipod while Denise drove. We stayed at a nice Holiday Inn Express downtown (that we had gotten for a good price on hotwire.com!) After getting settled in our room we decided to head out for our evening activities.

We had dinner at Yats...a Cajun place in downtown Indy. Denise had heard about it from her friend and we decided to try it out. We each got something different. Unfortunately the dish that I ordered - a shrimp creole dish- wasn't really all that good and I ended up throwing over half of it away. Denise got a mushroom dish of some sort that had good flavor, but kind of a slimy texture that I wouldn't have been able to eat an entire plate of. Deanna hit the jackpot! She ordered a chicken chili dish that was very tasty!

My less than amazing shrimp creole dish.

After dinner we walked down the street to a place called Comedy Sportz. It is a casual little improv club. The "sportz" part of the name comes from the fact that there are two teams of comedians that are competing against each other. It was really funny...CLEAN and funny! I

Some of the comedians doing something that was funny.

Deanna, Denise, and I at our table at Comedy Sportz.

When we got back to the hotel we played cards and listened to music. It was a fun evening and I slept like a rock in the comfy hotel bed. :)