I have always been interested in visiting the Catacombs in Paris. When I visited Paris I was told it was illegal to enter the Catacombs. Ahh! I really wanted to see what they were like.

Well, I found out recently that they have catacomb tours in the city of Indianapolis. I couldn’t wait to go on one of the tours.

The catacombs in Indianapolis are actually the 20,000 square foot basement of the Tomlinson building. The building was built near the City Market in 1886 and burned down in 1958.

The basement was used to house the cities homeless in 1912. I heard that some of them died down there.

There has been lots of paranormal activity recorded in the catacombs by paranormal experts.

I went with my friend and her daughter, and I took my son along. He was interested in the historical details of the catacombs.

It was a beautiful area with arches and hallways. The floors are dirt and it has very uneven floors. There are some areas with concrete. It was pretty well lighted.

My friend took lots of pictures and she said that there were orbs in her pictures.

Here are my firsts for the last few days. I have been really busy getting my son ready to move into his first apartment at college.

Homework #225

I haven’t done homework in many years. I had 5 chapters assigned to read and study for my master gardener class this week. There was so many pages of scientific reading. I didn’t think I was ever going to learn that stuff. I knew we were supposed to have a quiz and I didn’t want to do poorly on it.

My First Lecture #226

My first lecture in the master gardening class was on plant science. The lecturer was a botanist. She was very interesting and I really enjoyed her talk. I had really gotten a lot from all of that reading so I understood what she was talking about.

She brought several different plant samples. We dissected plants to look at the sexual reproduction parts. I had never dissected plants like that before. She had us slice each flower in half so that we could see the different parts.

I really feel like I am going to know so much when this class is done. At some point I will talk about all the things I am learning.

Going out in public in a tank top #227

Since I have been using the medicine ball I have seen some improvement in my arms. I think if I keep using it I will see some great results.

I decided to go out in public wearing a tank top. I went to a Starbuck’s and sat inside and drank a Chai Tea Latte.

I am happy that I felt fine without covering my arms.

I am very disappointed in myself though. My oldest son called and asked me to go ski diving with him. I really wanted to go. My husband didn’t want me to, he was afraid that something would happen to me. I started watching You Tube videos about ski diving and the videos about how you need to land scared me. I worried that I might break my leg or something. I chickened out

My two sons went. They had a fantastic time. I sat that afternoon beating myself up for losing out on the opportunity. I should have gone!!!