"Bloomington-home of my alma mater" a Bloomington Travel Page by Dabs

Back in the days before students had their own computers/cell phones/cars/private jets, I spent four years as a starving college student at Indiana University in Bloomington. I'm not overly sentimental about my alma mater, I promptly toss out all of the pleas for cash and invitations to class reunions. Prior to this trip, I had only returned to the campus to visit my husband (then boyfriend) and once after he graduated which was at least 10 years ago.

But we were headed that way on a daytrip to West Baden, we thought we would stop. As we were turning on the off ramp, we saw the big sign that said Little 500 weekend this weekend and we both groaned in unison as we had made fun of alumni that returned on that weekend!

But we forged ahead to Mother Bear's to have a pizza, thankfully that had not been closed like our first choice, Garcia's. While watching all of the coeds talking on their cell phones, I was starting to feel really, really old.

But we jumped into the car anyways to have a trip down memory land and tried to find a few things around campus that had not changed dramatically over the years.

I didn't get to take many photos as we were pressed for time, maybe someday we will return and take some more.

On our way back through, we hooked up with Greg (gkitzmil) and his wife who had suggested meeting at Nick's. I was glad that he did because we would have passed it by, this was the place all the alums went on weekends such as Little 500. But we were pleasantly surprised that it was filled mostly with students and we had a good meal.

I don't think I really appreciated the beauty of the campus while I was at school here, the buildings are mostly built with Indiana limestone and to get to the classroom buildings, you walk on paths through woods with beautiful trees.

I lived for 2 years at McNutt, my husband lived for 4 years at Memorial Hall, a lovely building with turrets and leaded glass.