Normal Downtown

While in Illinois, we (my daughters, my sister, my niece, and I) spent some time in downtown Normal.  I wish I lived there just so I could say, “I must get back to Normal”, and it would have nothing to do with being normal!

There were plenty of photo opportunities, including this movie theater :

We ate at this restaurant:

We browsed in this cute colorful shop:

Typically “normal” for a college town, there were murals and other artwork all over the place:

We browsed in this book store, where I could easily have spent the whole day:

On the right in the next photo is the Uptown Station where my daughter boarded a train for Chicago one weekend this summer during her stay here in Normal.  I would love to live close to such a thing!  Just go downtown and catch a train to somewhere exciting.  That would be fun, I think. 

Finally, here’s a sign we saw in another part of town: