Lafayette+and+West+Lafayette

Lafayette and West Lafayette are towns right next to each other in the midwest. They abide in Tippecanoe County. They are about an hour, or 60 miles, northwest of Indianapolis. They have a population of about 100,000 ([|US Census]). Lafayette and West Lafayette have two colleges: one is a undergraduate and graduate university, Purdue, and the other is a community college, Ivy Tech. There is one mall in Lafayette and West Lafayette as well as a downtown area that has many shops. Buses travel throughout Lafayette and West Lafayette and Lafayette has a train depot. Lafayette and West Lafayette have many festivals throughout the year including the River Fest, Dancing in the Streets, Art on the Wabash, Global Fest, which celebrates international cultures, Feast of the Hunter's Moon, which is a re-creation of the gathering of the French and Native Americans which took place at Fort Ouiatenon, Fiddler's Gathering, which is folk music, Taste of Tippecanoe, Lay Flats Arts and Musical Festival, Golden Leaf Festival, which is for pagans, Turn in Blue, which is a music festival geared toward promoting Barack Obama, GermanFest, held by St. Bonifice church, Mosey Down Main Street, which includes music and shops, Tippecanoe Latino Festival, Octoberfest, and Outoberfest which celebrates gay, lesbian, and transgender people coming out. Some of these festivals are large and last for days while some of them are small and last for only hours in a single day.