Well, the town was quaint and cute. I wouldn't mind stopping in it for breakfast and driving through 'cause after all it did look like Stars Hollow (the Gilmore Girls town), as visible with the gazebo and square. We also had breakfast 2 days ago at Cookie's Diner, which is pretty much Luke's Diner... minus the customers. However, that could be 'cause we all slept in on our day off and went to breakfast at the odd hour of 2 pm.
This town even has its very own Kirk, well in-fact, a few of them! Kirk on Gilmore Girls pretty much did every job in town. He'd show up at the dance store, the diner, the bank, etc. The daughter of the Super 8 owners, who also works there, also works at Walgreens, and one of the teachers who brought her students to our show also worked at our hotel.
Macomb also has the biggest snowman I've seen... it was over a story tall, it's teeth were made of bricks, its hat from a traffic cone, and its hat a large garbage can. (See picture below)
Aside from Cookie's Diner, we went to Cinema 1 and 2 to see The Lovely Bones... This movie theater was tiny and cheap (only $4 a ticket), and we all enjoyed the movie. Stanley Tucci was a completely different person than I've ever seen- super creepy. In general, I liked the book much more. The movie was kinda image excessive and pretty overblown, but it is what it is.
I made friends with a guy, Dan, who works at the cinema, who we invited to come out the following night with us.
The Forum, the place we went out last night was the sole place in town where people go on a Thursday night apparently. The Square was dead and you wouldn't even know that people were inside The Forum from the outside! The space is an old vaudeville house and it's really nice- lots of dance space, several bars, and two floors. Stephen and I went last night for an hour, danced a bit, looked at the kind of people out, and headed back to the hotel. The others wanted to stay in after a night of Domino's, the Olympics, and some McDonald's ice cream. It was Country-Western Night and everyone there was in plaid or flannel, most girls in far too short shorts, and guys in cowboy hats. Stephen turned to me and said, "Toto, we're not in New York anymore" and I couldn't agree more. We couldn't find our new friend, Dan, in the place- either he didn't show or the place was so crowded it was impossible to see him.
Our shows went well at Western Illinois University. We did, however, find out that we had been offered to stay at their own hotel in the same building as the theater... for free, and apparently we were not informed! Or, someone missed informing us... which was definitely annoying. It would've been nice to stay in a building that already had things to do- including bowling, people our age, food, and the theater we were performing in. The Super 8 we stayed in for 3 nights was fine, but definitely not a favorite.
We worked really hard to find things to do in Macomb but had no luck. We even drove to the university on our day off to ask what people do for fun. The answer? "We drink a lot." Another was to check out the roller skating rink, which actually did sound really delightful! However, when we got to the rink, Larissa and I went in to see if it was open. The response was a deep moan of a "no." We asked if they'd be open later and the two quiet men said "no." Any other rink we could go to? "No." Without a breath, Larissa and I skidaddled out of there quickly 'cause they were pretty sketchy and angry-seeming.
Needless to say, it was nice to leave Macomb, IL, where we pretty much did nothing. Here are some images:
Gazebo in our little 'Star Hollow:'
Macomb, IL Town Hall:
Shops in The Square:
Cinema 1 and 2:
Poster in Movie Theater:
Closed Little Java Shop:
Little Java Shop and Me:
Adams Street Coffee Shop CLOSED:
Sullivan Taylor Coffee House- CLOSED:
Bethany sad 'cause coffee shops are closed:
Falic object in snow in front of one of the College Apartments:
The Forum, and Brushfire, the band playing (they were pretty good):
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