Bloomington expected 500,000 people.
Here’s their big eclipse event at the IU Memorial Stadium.
Sorry about the weird angle. I didn’t take the photo.
I love that they thought they could centralize/commoditize a natural event that only requires you to stop wherever you are and look up.
We drove down to Lawrenceburg for the weekend and drove back Monday morning to get into totality.
It was a nightmare coming from outside Cincy, once we passed the first tiny town in totality (brookeville,) it was empty. To my surprise. We stopped in Richmond and it was a ghost town.
Seems everyone outside just went to the closest place to them possible…strange.
Edit: parking was $20, apparently a steal! 😂
I’m in Terre Haute, which was in the path of totality. We went to a park south of town where there’s a pioneer village and they were having a mini festival. It was a decent-sized crowd, but nothing massive. We were able to drive home pretty much right away.
I was really proud of our little town of Lebanon. There was live music, roller skating, photo booths, inflatables, vendors & food trucks, movie night, and all sorts of other events all weekend. I would say that attendance was probably less than expected Sat & Sun, but Monday was pretty hoppin!
