Whatnot goes West! (no rumor!!) :):)

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Posted by Andy Baker at 04/25/2001 10:41 AM EST


Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.


In Reply to: Whatnot goes West! (no rumor!!)
Posted by colleen - T190 on 04/25/2001 12:53 AM EST:



Colleen,

Since you and the boys will be getting in on Thursday, here are a few things that you just gotta check out while in Kokomo:

1. Go to Highland Park and see "Old Ben", the stuffed steer. He's pretty big, so when he died, his owner had him stuffed... about 80 years ago.

2. Right next to "Old Ben" is the "Sycamore Stump". It's also big... at one time there was a phone booth inside of it. Seeing these two amazing sights will make your 17 hour drive to Indiana well worth it.

3. You gotta eat lunch at "Louie's Coney Island" and have a "baked hamburger". This kinda looks like a hotdog, but it's a rolled hamburger that is cooked in chili sauce. You not only get to eat the "bake", but you get to taste it all day long. Yum!

4. We will be setting up the playing field at Memorial Gym on Thursday and Friday. Thursday (5/3), we will be taking things from the TechnoKat shop over to the Gym... you can help us out with that. Friday, we'll be making sure everything is wired correctly and put together right. We'll start loading stuff at our shop on Thursday around 2:30pm, and work until 8:00pm.

4. You can't miss the cookout we are having on Friday night at Delco Park. You will even get to play mini-golf for $1! The cookout starts at 7:00pm. For those of you who are taking your SAT's on May 5th (David Kelly and all), please show up to the cook-out! Just let me know if you will be there, so we'll have enough food.

5. If we can find a pool table somewhere, you can teach us hicks your game of "Crud". Sounds pretty neat to me.

6. There are some other things to do also. We do have 2 malls, some movie theatres (kinda crappy, though), and there's a place to go-kart. If you really get uppity, you can visit Grissom Air Force base, about 15 miles north of Kokomo... they have a good museum. Oh, yeah, if you like old cars, there is a auto museum at the "Kokomo Visitor Center" on the north side of town.

Or... you can just hang out with us TechnoKats. We're kinda cool, since we build robots.

Andy B.