This weekend we took Parkes to his grandparents and Brandon and I headed to Bardstown, KY with our good friends Matt, Keri, Nathan and Meridy. It was Brandon's father's day present from me for a weekend away from all the work on the house. So we headed up there early Saturday morning with a few bumps in the road (Keri's purse contents falling in the McDonald's bathroom toliet when the shelf above the toliet gave out) but all ready for a fun weekend and we had a great time with lots of entertainment thanks to the guys and the locals of Bardstown. For those that have never heard of the town it is a very small, very old and historic town just south of Louisville. We took a trolley after lunch to see all the historic sights with a trolley driver that was lacking in the comedy department but sure tried hard. We got done with that just in time to drive out to tour Jim Beam's family home which sits on a beautiful hillside and walk around downtown area where the boys entertained us with a little middle school game of "i bet i can jump further off of this then you" which I did have to get my mommy voice out when Brandon decided he would attempt to put his feet in the hand shackles outside the Jailers Inn and was about to land on his head. Then we headed back to our bed and breakfast which was built in the 1700's and was suppose to be haunted and had a very nice dinner....that's when the fun started. We had heard when we made the res
ervations that our b&b had live music on friday and saturday, but little did we know that it was the place for all of Bardstown to come for their nightly entertainment. As Keri, Meridy and I entered we got some looks from some local girls as if they were letting us know that this was their hangout and not to think about talking to their men. We sat down and the boys joined us and for the rest of the night we sat just watching what was going on around us. It was like we had never seen with all the girls in love with the lead singer who thought he was just the coolest thing and sadly to say it was as if he was the celebrity of the town. And the dancing can only be described as dirty dancing to the e
xtreme...we felt as if we had entered a different world. We stayed for a good while and then left to go up to the balcony by our rooms to laugh at what we had seen. The next morning Brandon and I took a tour of a beautiful church after breakfast with some artwork from the 1800s. Then we all checked out and piled in the minivan to head to Loretto, KY home of Makers Mark. It did not open until 1 but we thought there might be something to do in Loretto but we were extremely wrong as it was one of the smallest towns I have ever seen so we head over to Makers Mark which had a chain blocking the drive in because it was only 11:45, but that didn't stop the boys from thinking they could get past it so Matt and Nathan go
to work on the locked chain as Brandon waits to pull the van through, and just as they are holding the post that held the chain over the heads out of the ground a very country camoflauge truck pulls up next to us to inform us they don't open until 1. We politely thank him as Matt and Nathan put the post back into the ground and he tells us of the back way to go in so we went and waited for them to open. We toured the grounds and then headed home. All and all it was a very fun weekend and a great getaway with good friends...here are some of the pictures. We are having swim lessons tonight and I plan on taking my camera so I will post some pictures of our little swimmer here soon.
This weekend we took Parkes to his grandparents and Brandon and I headed to Bardstown, KY with our good friends Matt, Keri, Nathan and Meridy. It was Brandon's father's day present from me for a weekend away from all the work on the house. So we headed up there early Saturday morning with a few bumps in the road (Keri's purse contents falling in the McDonald's bathroom toliet when the shelf above the toliet gave out) but all ready for a fun weekend and we had a great time with lots of entertainment thanks to the guys and the locals of Bardstown. For those that have never heard of the town it is a very small, very old and historic town just south of Louisville. We took a trolley after lunch to see all the historic sights with a trolley driver that was lacking in the comedy department but sure tried hard. We got done with that just in time to drive out to tour Jim Beam's family home which sits on a beautiful hillside and walk around downtown area where the boys entertained us with a little middle school game of "i bet i can jump further off of this then you" which I did have to get my mommy voice out when Brandon decided he would attempt to put his feet in the hand shackles outside the Jailers Inn and was about to land on his head. Then we headed back to our bed and breakfast which was built in the 1700's and was suppose to be haunted and had a very nice dinner....that's when the fun started. We had heard when we made the res
ervations that our b&b had live music on friday and saturday, but little did we know that it was the place for all of Bardstown to come for their nightly entertainment. As Keri, Meridy and I entered we got some looks from some local girls as if they were letting us know that this was their hangout and not to think about talking to their men. We sat down and the boys joined us and for the rest of the night we sat just watching what was going on around us. It was like we had never seen with all the girls in love with the lead singer who thought he was just the coolest thing and sadly to say it was as if he was the celebrity of the town. And the dancing can only be described as dirty dancing to the e
xtreme...we felt as if we had entered a different world. We stayed for a good while and then left to go up to the balcony by our rooms to laugh at what we had seen. The next morning Brandon and I took a tour of a beautiful church after breakfast with some artwork from the 1800s. Then we all checked out and piled in the minivan to head to Loretto, KY home of Makers Mark. It did not open until 1 but we thought there might be something to do in Loretto but we were extremely wrong as it was one of the smallest towns I have ever seen so we head over to Makers Mark which had a chain blocking the drive in because it was only 11:45, but that didn't stop the boys from thinking they could get past it so Matt and Nathan go 
to work on the locked chain as Brandon waits to pull the van through, and just as they are holding the post that held the chain over the heads out of the ground a very country camoflauge truck pulls up next to us to inform us they don't open until 1. We politely thank him as Matt and Nathan put the post back into the ground and he tells us of the back way to go in so we went and waited for them to open. We toured the grounds and then headed home. All and all it was a very fun weekend and a great getaway with good friends...here are some of the pictures. We are having swim lessons tonight and I plan on taking my camera so I will post some pictures of our little swimmer here soon.
2 comments:
Your blog posting made me laugh all over again! What a fun weekend! :)
It was such a fun (and funny) weekend! I'll try to get some of my pictures downloaded soon. Thankfully the camera didn't fall in the toilet with everything else :)
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