Let's play a game...

...of "Where The #$%&! IS It?"

I've lived here in Peoria for nearly six years now, and have never been to the

Fesitval of Lights

. Always wanted to go...just never got there.

It was such a nice day today (up to 67!) that we decided to take advantage and take a topless cruise around town...and try to find just exactly where the drive-through portion of the festival is. Just in case we decide to go some evening we won't be fumblin' around, tryin to find it in the dark on unfamiliar streets, ya know?

Soooo...where the #$%& is it?

We followed one sign down Washington in E. Peoria...only to find a sign pointing us in the opposite direction. Then we took Meadows cleeeeear the hell to Morton. No sign. Then we took Eastside Drive, up through the sports complex...nothin. No friggin signs. Not even a hint. We saw exactly two contradictory signs for an event that supposedly draws thousands of people, which leads me to believe that the City of East Peoria doesn't really give a shit if they draw thousands of touristas or not.

Well, fuck a buncha lights, anyway.

So, we're comin back over the river and gonna try out the newly opened 74/University Street exit...and we see not one, but two signs for "Shea Stadium". WTF? I thought Shea Stadium was in New Yawk?? We drove all the way out University to Pioneer and didn't see any damn Shea Stadium.

Soooo...where the hell is Shea Stadium?

Can anyone answer my questions?

Bueller?

Bueller?

Oh, and just as an aside, there's just something kinda....surreal...about pulling up to the Sheridan Road Florist/Nursery...in a convertible...with the top down...and buying several bundles of different types of evergreen boughs to decorate our planter boxes...for Christmas.