Louisville, KY
We’re not horse racing fans, but the self-guided museum, as well as the guided tour of the area where the races take place, viewing the seating area (which can hold more than 100K viewers on race days) and the paddocks where the horses are kept prior to races, was quite interesting. We also drove around the downtown area, but essentially everything was closed by virtue of being a Sunday and the day following New Year’s.
Claudette’s 2 cents: Visiting Churchill Down and the Kentucky Derby Museum was nice but what I loved most were the hats. If you know me, the Kentucky Derby is all about the hats and the mint julep. We’re lucky enough to live close to where they host a Kentucky Derby Party in Warrenton. One day, we might just go for the fun of it, that is so that I can get myself a beautiful, fancy hat.
Today was a really cold and rainy kind of day. We drove around the city and saw some really nice houses. We wanted to visit some historical homes like the Caldwell home in Locust Grove, and the glass blowing shop, but they were closed because of the Christmas/New Year holiday. Lots of art around the city which reminded me of Philly. We did see some nice things like the giant baseball bat. That was cool.
The campground was OK. Would you know, the train was close by. The joke is that Bernard needs his trains whenever we go camping. We’ve yet to go somewhere where we don’t hear a train somewhere in the distance.
It’s been pretty cold here, 26F when we got up. At least the sun is out and there’s no snow. One thing we saw that was heartbreaking, especially in this cold were homeless sleeping in tents and sleeping bags on the streets.
