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Lake Monroe is the Indiana's largest lake, located near Indiana University, Bloomington. It is a man made reservoir, built mainly for flood controlling purpose.

There are many picnic areas, shelters and a boat rental service too. It's a nice place to relax and enjoy. Also, this place is attractive to nature lovers. Following picture was taken in last summer (2010). There were many ducks and ducklings swimming here and there. 

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Saliya and I were tired of being idle through out the summer as many of our family friend were away for their internships. So we decided to go and visit some place if we can make it within a day. Finally we chose Indianapolis Zoo, which is about 50 miles away from Bloomington, IN. 

We rent a car from Ace for one day. Ace is a good place for car rentals. The people seemed to be friendly and we didn't experience any inconvenience either. Also, they allow to keep your car parked there, till you come back. They even pick you up if you want to.  

It took about 1 hour for us to reach the Zoo. Here is the route we took from Bloomington to Indianapolis zoo.


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There was a Dolphin show at 10.00 a.m. We really enjoyed it. Anyway what I have to say about the rest is "Not worth watching for the people who have been to tropical countries". The zoo was not much big and there were small number of tropical animals. We had lunch from a cafeteria inside the zoo and left the place sooner than we thought.

Then we thought to watch an iMax show in Indy AMC theater. The movie is Inception. Well, that was cool, so our trip was not just a waste. We had dinner on the way home from a Subway.

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Adler Planetarium is located near the lake Michigan and it is closed to the Field Museum too. So we walked there after visiting Field museum. Hmm...I should say this is another good source of study for kids but there is nothing interesting for adults. The planetarium was built nicely but shows include only normal stuff which we have already experienced.

When we step outside after the show it was extremely windy out there. The planetarium was built near Michigan shore and we could see the nice view of city line from there.

We had dinner on our way home. It was late night when we reach home.
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