For those parents/engineers that REALLY, REALLY want to come to IRI, have small children, and need a way to entertain them while the event is going on, one option (albeit expensive) is the
Indianapolis Holiday Inn Caribbean Cove at the Pyramids. It is literally right off the expressway, has a waterpark inside (with slides that extend outside the hotel, very cool), and is, from what I can tell, the next best thing to Disney World (well, maybe, but you can tell your kids that). For older children, you may want to look at some of the different attractions in Indy, too. Look at some of the
cool restaurants, the
Indianapolis Zoo, the
White River Gardens, or for a spouse and teenagers, keep 'em busy at the
Circle Centre Mall- two blocks, and four floors of shopping.
Hopefully, this will be enough to get some of you guys (coughkressly and dillardcough) out here for the famous IRI. Whatever kinds of entertainment your family may decide on, just please remember my post about
Indiana Beach in the 2003 IRI thread. Again, all I have to say is 'uggggggg'.
