Louisville

Cave City and park City are right next to each other. Cave city is mostly national park area with lots of caves. Park City is the area right next to cave city where you exit the hwy to get to Cave City. A bunch of entrepreneurs got the idea to build various amusement areas at the hwy exit where people going to the caves have to pass through. As a result there is a western theme park, a dinosaur park, a smaller western them park, etc. We passed through both as we hit hwy 65 to head north to Louisville.

Before we left Mami spent some time with the RV park owner, a very nice Christian lady. She is also an author. Mami borrowed her book and stayed up past 1AM watching it the night before. So I bought her a copy and the author signed it for Mami. Then they stayed and chit chatted for a couple of hours. Nice to see Mami slow down and do something other than family related stuff. " Her time!"

Above is the picture of the game I mentioned in yesterday's blog.

Louisville was only a 90 minute drive and sadly it was a bit disappointing. I suppose for a young couple or older couple it would be OK. But for a big family with a kid in a wheel chair and small kids it was, well, boring. Since we got into town around 4PM almost everything downtown was closed (museums, etc) . The parks along the river were OK but hard to get to and the river was filthy. I have seen the river front many times while driving through Louisville and the lights are awesome. But daytime it is not so exciting. And all the "attractions" are pretty far apart. As far as "big" cities go it's more of a quick visit town. Also there was no free parking anywhere...even on a Saturday eve.

We did get our few pictures in. They are below.

Being us we still had fun. We also had a pure Kentucky meal....Taco Bell....OK so it isn't a pure Kentucky Meal but the company that owns KFC owns Taco Bell too sooooooo?

By the Way the "homeless guy" below is Lukas who asked to be photographed that way. The van below was parked under the hwy near the Ohio River front. Couldn't resist taking a picture of it.

Our hotel we are at today is interesting. It is about 60 or 70 years old. It has a big lobby with lots of wood and looked like it might have been a hot spot once upon a time. But today it is a traveler's hotel and it's in or next to the "bad" part of town. The gas station/convenience store next to us has an armed guard on duty there. But that wasn't our first clue.

Still I love the old brick buildings around town. Very pretty architecture.