I think that we're all sad to have left Bloomington Indiana. We made some fantastic friends there and caught up with Gabe Coleman, one of the indiana team who certainly looked after us well.

Yesterday, Emma and I were lucky enough to accompany Gabe to a winery and after a little testing we bought a bottle of wine and sat in the grounds to drink it. Roger spent the day on a boat, Mark went to a baseball game with his host family's children and Charles went to watch the Little 500 - the cycle racing equivilent of the Indy500.

In the evening we went to Sushi, a delicacy that Mark, Emma and I had not tried before - and I don't think any of us were real fans by the end of it, so we went for Icecream to make up for it!

This morning after an early church service, 7.30 (!) and a big breakfast, I was dropped off to catch our next ride to Terre Haute the next place we're staying. We were picked up by a rockstar style tour bus, which was pretty amazing on the inside. I slept all the way - I obviously needed it as sleeping in a moving vehicle isn't nornally something that I'm able to do.

 This afternoon we went to a community theatre production of Sex, Love & the IRS - a farce and very funny.

Back to work tomorrow and vocational visits start again after a relaxing weekend in the sun - which has at last made an appearance. The weather has certainly changed a lot whilst we've been here, and the saying goes that if you don't like the weather here you just have to wait an hour and it will have changed!

Another visit was to Teachers Warehouse.  No not the whiskey type.  Would you believe that th US Government do not supply pens, papers and other commodities for primary schools.  They have to e provided by parents if they can afford it.  If they can't then the teachers have to get them out of yheir own pockets - $1000 a year.  So the three Rotary clubs in Bloomington have now got a warehouse and they collected donated items which teachers can go and collect free of charge.

Had a cookout at my hosts house last night with all team and their hosts attended. Charles, Mark and me got in the host tub.  What I do for Rotary?

We went to Lilly Rare Books Library at the University of Indiana in Bloomington this morning. We handled over $30 million dollars of books including original James Bond Manuscripts, The original Peter Pan and one of the first copies of Shakespeares Completed printed works. Incredible.

 Perhaps the highlight though was being allowed to hold a real academy award! AN OSCAR. Mark is still raving about it 8 hours later. Although theory says that if you hold one you're not going to win one... so perhaps we'll all have to give up that dream.

The weather appears to have turned and the sun is out, so much so that we had to purchase suncreen and I'm wishing I'd bought shorts. A huge change from the freezing weather we experienced when we arrived in Chicago which meant we had to wait on the tarmac whilst they de-iced our plane to manke the connection to Loiusville.