Maybe it’s due to the fact that my birthday is in August, but I feel like it’s non-stop birthday month! The trend of me being a total summer slacker continues; I am just now posting the pics from my birthday which was August 5. Not that I’m behind or anything.
This year my birthday fell on a Thursday, and I was crazy busy and stressed getting ready for the fashion show we were participating in that weekend. So the Monday of my birthday week, my boy and I took a mini road trip to Indiana and spent the day driving around in the country. When I was first out of high school I joined my brother and some of our friends working at a summer camp out there for a few years, so it is kind of like going home for me. Although I only worked there for 3 years and it’s just a summer program, I feel like I’m home when I go back. It’s definitely the same kind of rolling countryside that I grew up in too. It makes me so happy to finally get out to those wooded areas where you can feel the temperature drop 5 degrees automatically; I can just feel my whole body relax.
Fun side story: my boy and I thoroughly enjoy driving around listening to music, and this trip is definitely no exception. Unfortunately, someone ripped the stereo out of his car about a week before. Surprisingly, we didn’t have a boombox around the house so we were starting to get really bummed about not having tunes all day. That’s when my MacGyver of a boyfriend fashioned this!
One cell phone, one camera tripod, and one gaping hole
What a man! :) AND since his phone has a navigation function, it also served us very well as a GPS! Anyway, back to our trip…
Hope you weren't in a hurry, cause you're not going anywhere soon!
Look at that gorgeous corn! We spent a few hours just driving aimlessly around looking at the countryside and stopping at little shops. I could spend days doing just that.
One of my absolute favorite things ever are abandoned buildings, especially houses like these. There are so many out in the country too.
One of many Amish homes in that area; it reminded me how amazing sun-dried sheets smell. I swear, there’s nothing in the world like it.
At some point during the day I absolutely had to be in a creek at some point during the day. Originally we had planned to go to a swimming hole that I used to know about, but we never did find it.
Ahhhhhh….
Our next big stop was in Madison, this cute little river town in southeastern Indiana.
I’m a total sucker for old movie theaters, I wish there was one around me that played classic movies.
This is what I really came to Madison for. Hinkle’s is a must if you are ever near there!
They have the best milkshakes there too, and everything is supercheap. What more could anyone ask for?
After we gorged ourselves on mini burgers and milkshakes, we decided to walk around the town a little. It was just getting to be sunset so it was perfect for a stroll.
We walked down to the river and sat on this pier for a while, just chillaxin’.
I shall hide.
We’d been gone for 7 or 8 hours by then and it was getting late, so we hopped it the car and headed home to let our pups out.
Almost home!
More very soon!
This Goodwill is the beginning of my love of thrift stores. As I mentioned, Williamsburg is a very small town and pretty much everybody we grew up with was more into mall clothes so we had the run of this Goodwill’s ironic t-shirts and vintage dresses. Among many other treasures I once got a perfect 1930 Royal typewriter with the case for $10 here. Obviously this was on my list of places that we had to stop at.
