Getting the license was very easy - All I had to do was smile nicely at an old man, sign my name, and they gave me a 'temporary' license on the spot, my 'real' one is to be posted to me at some point.
Since we had made the trip to Indianapolis, Sarah showed me around Carmel, the city she grew up in, her old high school, the place she used to work, and just all around the place.
It is precisely the "America" you see in Disney movies. You know, the one where everyone has a three storey house with a front lawn (no front fences), children ride bikes with no helmets, telephone numbers start with 555, basketball rings out the front, basements, yellow school buses not used for any other purpose, and letterboxes with flags on the side.
I was rather kicking myself for forgetting my camera, but its not that far away and I'm sure we will be back in the area again soon. This place was incredible - just about every house would be upwards of at least $150,000 to $500,000 in the local currency - though the same things anywhere in Australia you would be looking at starting around the $800,000 or $900,000 mark. Huge! The school, for years 9 to 12 only, squeezes 3300 students in - and has the basic essential features no school could possibly do without, like a planetarium, five stadiums (some inside, some outside), a radio station, an olympic sized swimming pool, two cafeterias (not tuckshops!) and of course 3300 lockers.
I was very excited to see the nest of school buses - they really do look exactly like the bus on The Simpsons - and they spend the time when not actually on the school run just nesting in a rather large carpark all together. I will promise to put some photos of these buses up some time soon.
There are a couple of new photos up, but I tend to leave my camera behind at the times when I most need it. Like yesterday afternoon, when I saw a convertible full of old people stopped at the traffic lights...
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