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Building Forts and Real Estate Empires in Kentucky

Who Forted
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It was a bit of a rainy day today so we went to downtown Louisville to the Kentucky Science Center. This is a children’s museum with tons of great hands on fun. This was a great place to bring Andrew and Eva. Andrew needed the movement and being able to touch things without getting reprimanded. It was tough for him not to pick up the kittens on his own at the Cat Cafe. He still tried but was not supposed to. Even though he was very gentle with them. He does love kittens and cats and dogs for that matter. He also loves to play and explore, this was a perfect place for him. We made a video of our adventure that you can see below.

There were many exhibits. We went to the second floor and there were items that the kids could use to make parachutes and then put in wind tubes. The tubes would blow the parachutes up to nearly the ceiling. Andrew made a bunch of these, as did Eva.

Andrews Floating Design

The kids spent the bulk of their time working on making some benches from a set of wooden pieces, bolts and wingnuts. The wooden pieces had holes in them and the kids bolted everything together with the help of Allison and Auntie Tara.

Building Benches

After the bench building we went to a few more exhibits and then to the rocket exhibit. Kids could make paper rockets and then launch them up into the sky. They shot up really far, mine came right back down onto my camera. I had fun building a rocket as well.

Building Rockets

We spent tonight at home and had pizza. We ate at a table that has been in our family for over 200 years. It was my grandmother’s grandmother’s table that was refinished and now resides in Tara’s dining room.

Family Table

It was to be a game night and we were excited to play Northopoly, it is basically monopoly from an off brand company that worked with our town to produce. It was funny looking back through the game at the business that are still around and those that have been long gone for years. We’ve played monopoly before but never this intense. The game went really late and we did not finish so we took photos of the board and everyone packed up their money and properties into sealed envelopes to play tomorrow night or later this Summer on the Cape.

Monopoly Night

It was our last night at Tara and Uncle E’s place. We had had such a fun week visiting them. Tomorrow we headed down to Nashville to explore and stay overnight to get to the airport.

Chicken and Waffles, Boat Trip and Mexican Street Popcorn

Froggy Pop Corn
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Our continued tour of Kentucky culinary haunts continued today. We went of the Butchertown Grocery for brunch and it was out of this world delicious. It was one of our favorite meals and dining locations. This is also one of my sister’s favorites.

Before we went to brunch I helped Uncle E clean the boat to get it ready for an afternoon ride. They have a very nice boat and we were going to go for a ride on the Ohio river in the afternoon. Cleanup was fairly quick and we returned to get everyone to go to Butchertown Grocery.

Chicken and Waffles

Eva and I split their Chicken and Waffles. It was so good. We polished that giant plate off along with a side of bacon because, well, bacon. Andrew had a couple of poached eggs, bacon and some incredible has browns. I had plenty of those, too. they had cheese in them, amazing!

After brunch we took a walk through The Flea. There I met the owner of Froggy’s Pop Corn. They had tons of options for samples and I really enjoyed the Mexican Street corn flavor. I got Mexican street corn ever single chance I got all week and as a popcorn flavor that was excellent. Andrew is the king of all samples and he had plenty of them himself. He liked Cinnamon Bun the most.

We were getting hot and so it was time to get out on the water.

On the boat

With all the rain this year the Ohio was running very high. Uncle E. navigated around all the floating debris like a champ. Both of the kids loved being on a bot for the first time. We got a nice ride in and got off the water before the skies opened and unleashed a fury of torrential rain. We watched on the TV as the rain rolled in and completely obscured the bridges downtown, bridges that we were close to while we were on the water. I’m glad that we turned in when we did.