We started out with a tour for the Notre Dame Campus. Notre Dame was to play Purdue on Saturday so there was excitement for Football Friday. We got to the campus "early" so we could get parked and sign up for a tour. We arrive about 9:20 a.m. and the parking by the Visitor Center was already full and people everywhere. We found street parking and had plenty of time to sign up for the tour.
Some of the highlights of the tour are the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes made 1/7th size of the actual grotto, the Main Building also known as the Golden Dome, Hesburgh Library named from their longtime president (who was the guy who opened ND to woman in '72) also known as Touchdown Jesus and the stadium which accommodates 80,000 people.
We had lunch then it was off to the Indiana Dunes. As a kid we would visit here during the summer sometimes. To me it was great! I loved running up and down the dunes. On this vacation we had already been to the Sleeping Bear Dunes and at this point was just more sand.
Within the national park are these 5 houses called Century of Progress. A real estate developer purchased these houses after the 1933 Chicago's World's Fair. He moved them by barge. I could write more but I don't want to lose my audience who could care less. I took a picture of the sign that explains a bit more, I'll have Tom add it to his pictures.
https://www.nps.gov/indu/learn/historyculture/centuryofprogress.htm
We parked and walked to see the houses but the road was narrow so we walked on the beach. See the staircase to the pink house? Why not just walk up there? Why?! because your shoes & socks will be covered with burrs! Thankfully only i walked to the house, so we only had to pull them off of my feet.
We stopped at the Hard Rock Casino in Gary, IN to get a pin for my collection. Then it on to the Chicagoland traffic jam and we arrived in Lombard, IL.
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