Ritchey Woods Nature Preserve, Fishers, Indiana

Anita was off work today, so for lunch we drove over to Sam's Gyros and picked up a regular gyro (for Anita) and a spicy gyro (for me) and headed over to Ritchey Woods Nature Preserve in Fishers. We have driven by Ritchey Woods at least a hundred times and always wanted to stop, and today we finally did.

Ritchey Woods is a nature preserve of about 127 acres. There are several walking trails...

... and a few picnic tables, and a nice shelter area for anyone's use.


It seems that the shelter was recently used for a rather major pumpkin carving activity!


It was nice out today (mid 70s), and there were a few people there walking their dogs... or just walking themselves!


While walking along one trail we discovered these enormous giant puffball mushrooms. Apparently these mushrooms can get over 40 pounds in weight! I can believe it by how big they are! The large one below was bigger than a basketball!

Ritchey Woods is a nice little place to stop by for a stroll and enjoy the woods and nature. We are looking forward to returning soon.

CR Heroes, Fishers, Indiana

As long as we've lived here, we've never been to CR Heroes even though it is just down the street. Well, we went last weekend and loved it!


CR Heroes is a nice little place. Half bar, half restaurant. The restaurant (we didn't go into the bar) is decorated with tons and tons of memorabilia and pictures and items from various heroes, such as soldiers, firefighters... Popeye... Capt. Kangaroo... You name it! It's fun just looking at all of the things on the walls!

We both ordered the same thing: the breaded tenderloin sandwich with a side salad, and deep-fried pickles for an appetizer. Everything was really well made. The tenderloin sandwiches came with a really great roasted garlic (and I think red pepper flake) mayonnaise. I'll definitely be making that mayo soon. It has a lot of garlic in it, so if you're not a big fan of garlic you might want to sub regular mayo.

Service was pleasant and prompt. We'll definitely be returning to CR Heroes soon!

Original Pancake House

We don't normally eat breakfast. We just grab a cereal or granola bar. But, since we are on vacation this week we decided to go out for breakfast. We went to the Original Pancake House in Fishers, Indiana.


We've never eaten here even though it is about 3 miles from our house. The reviews we've read about it are mostly positive.

Anita ordered the bacon pancakes. I believe there were about 8 or so pancakes. She said they were delicious.

I ordered the ham and cheese omelet. The waitress messed up my order and I got the bacon and cheese omelet instead, which is quite fine by me. The omelet was huge. Seriously huge. Mega huge. I barely ate half of it and the 3 buttermilk pancakes that came with it.

The Original Pancake House isn't cheap, but the food is decent. The portions are huge, though, and we ended up bringing half of our breakfast home. The service was ok. It got better after the waitress realized that she'd made a mistake with my order.