Wednesday, October 29, 2014
An IU Senior's Mandatory Bloomington Adventure List
Categories: Outdoors, Indiana University, Arts & Culture, The IU Student Perspective, Live Music, Festivals
It's my senior year at IU and I am a native Bloomingtonian. Since I've lived here my whole life I have gotten to go do tons of unique things Bloomington has to offer and see several special places and events. If I end up moving away from B-Town after I graduate, there are definitely certain things I will miss about this town as well as wanting to cross off my bucket list if I haven't done it already. If one day I leave, I would want to make sure I:
- Watch a free movie at the IMU
- At night, lie on the ground and watch the light totem change in front of the Eskenazi Museum of Art at IU
- Grab a coffee from Soma, then afterwards get tacos, chips and salsa from Laughing Planet
- Buy breadsticks with cheese sauce from Pizza X
- Go to a wine tasting at the original Oliver Winery and sit by the lake
- Take on a short stack of chocolate chip pancakes from Village Deli
- Snap a photo with the Herman B Wells statue, Hoagy Carmichael, and Ernie Pyle too
- Buy grasshopper ice cream from Chocolate Moose and cookie monster ice cream from Jiffy Treet
- Attend the Little 500 men's or women's race
- Eat the Sunday brunch in the Tudor Room at the Indiana Memorial Union
- Go to Kilroy's Breakfast Club during Homecoming weekend
- Enjoy a nice dinner at Malibu Grill
- go through the different exhibits at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at IU. Afterward, stroll through the Angles Café
- Look down Kirkwood Ave from the Sample Gates at night
- Get kettle corn popcorn from the Saturday Farmers' Market
- Climb the fire tower at Hoosier National Forest
- Watch a performance at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, then go to BLU Boy Chocolate Café and Cakery and buy macarons
- Walk around downtown during Lotus Festival and see a concert
- Stroll through the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center
- Tailgate before a football game
- See a show at the IU Auditorium show and a movie at the IU Cinema
- Buy center stage tickets to The Nutcracker
- Look at stars at the Kirkwood Observatory
- Walk around downtown during the Canopy of Lights, which kicks off the holiday season
- Go to Flat Rock at Monroe Lake and skip rocks
So if the day ever comes when I leave this beautiful and diverse town, I will definitely have some ideas on what I have to do before leaving.
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