Take the Last Moho to Clarksville

It's Tace Tuesday, but we're gonna have fajitas & quesadillas instead.  Which kinda go along with the Taco Tuesday theme, don't they?  I mean there's still gonna be some spicy food and those spices and foods come from the same place as tacos, so I'm thinking that it'll be ok.  Whatever it is, Katie usually does a good job of making it pretty darn good, as is evidenced my the shadow which is always attached to my feet.

Last night, we had a rousing game of UNO, something that everyone in my family enjoys.  It wasn't for very long though as Riley and Avery had to get to bed, but it was a good, family time and even James got involved in the action.  Sadly, he didn't feel quite so good this morning so stayed home another day from work.  Maybe the game was too much for him, ya think?  But the game didn't quite make it to the #1 Grandpa rule of "Grandpa always wins" since I ended up in third place out of five.  Well, at least I didn't lose, right?

Woke up this morning to snow coming down.  Had a little more on the ground than we had previously on Sunday, but the sun had most of it gone by noon with the exception of where the shadows were.  Seems to be getting colder now, another reason why it's getting to be Christmas time, right?  We had the high of 40 just a couple of moments ago (3:05 PM), supposed to get to 50 tomorrow, and 57 the day after that.  Katie doesn't have much faith in the weather prognosticators, but I believe in them.  Most of the time.  ...Maybe.  Thursday we're supposed to have a 10% chance of precipitation, I'm not holding my breath on that one.  When we lived in Las Vegas, I used to wait with baited breath for the heavy rain storms, always seemed like it was better than the norm for the area, which always seemed to me to be a lotta hot and a lotta blue sky, which was just kinda boring after about 10 years.  Not everyone who lives there feels the same, I'm sure.  But I thought the best way to enjoy a thunder storm would be to have a bowl of ice cream and sit where you could listen to the thunder and watch the natural fireworks in the sky.  I wonder how many other folks have the desire to have ice cream on those days?  Ya think the sales of ice cream go higher on days like that in the desert?  Hmmmm...


The Travelogue

So after we left Ken, Allison, Natalie & Elias, we headed towards Louisville, Ky., but spent the night in Clarksville, In., in a parking lot not far from the Indiana/Kentucky state line.  There was a water park there that we figured had been open earlier in the summer, but by the time we got there, it looked like it hadn't been used for a while.  There was also a dinner club nearby and had a lot of cars in the parking lot, but none of them were near where we parked.  It was just for the night since we got there kinda late (as I recall).  In the morning after breakfast, we went north to Add-More RV Park

 where we stayed for, I think, three days while we went to the Creation Museum, the Louisville Slugger Museum, and take a tour of old Victorian homes in Louisville.

The Creation Museum was very interesting, and as Christians, we enjoyed it thoroughly.  I can't tell you exactly what we saw, but there was a speaker there that refuted evolution quite well and we enjoyed hearing him speak also.  If you're in the Louisville area, I urge you to go there, it would be well worth your time.

The Louisville Slugger Museum was good also showing us the history behind the baseball bats and how they were and are now made.  It wasn't as easy as it is now where the wood is cut to a certain dimension, and then a lathe does all the hard work, making bunches of bats quite quickly compared to how long it took long ago.

The tour of Victorian homes was over a mile and took us more than an hour to complete.  Most of the homes were occupied so we were only able to look at the outside of them rather than see what they were like inside, but it was interesting still the same looking at the architecture.  The tour also took in the area where the Southern Exposition took place from 1883 - 1887, and the guide talked extensively about it.
If you use the link above, it'll tell more about it than I remember, except that there were a bunch of electric lights installed by Thomas Edison.

We also went to the Louisville Mega Caverns which had been an underground mine from 1930 - 1970, but, as I recall, went through a change of owners and lost it's zoning to be a mine.  Now there's a big hole in the side of a hill that gives access to the cavern of over 100 acres with various areas inside the cavern being turned into rooms by putting up walls for secure storage.  I don't remember when it was turned into a storage and recycling facility, but if you go there you can ask the tour guide.  I took several pictures, but since it was underground and dark in most of the places, they don't do justice to the cavern.  Sorry!

Louisville was a great place to visit.  We're looking forward to going back there again sometime.