Home Time…

A long drive home of which I was asleep for 90%, so I’m going to let Tyler fill you in IF anything exciting happened :)

Bye Bye Louisville, KY

Notice the trend from this trip? My passengers slept on the way there, they slept on the way back… I was left to keep myself entertained for the majority of the driving time… however she did leave out some pretty stellar highlights from the ride home… first was that we managed to stop at a KFC on the way home that was not only combined with a taco bell, but it was also a buffet… now I understand this plays into the whole fat, wasteful American deal, but come’on… its KFC!!

Just so you know, this is the KFC Yum! Center...where Marquette played, just sayin'

Slugger Field…

How cool is this advert?
It's for a glass and mirror company

The Slugger Field museum...
See if you can spot me!

I know understand the concept of baseball and most of the rules…and now I have seen where they make the baseball bats! It was really cool to see the machines and how they make soooo many bats in such a short amount of time.

They even dip and dye them to created cool coloured bats (like pinks ones for Mother’s Day), they can even burn the signature of the player the bat was made for on the side of it.

As a souvenir we each received a mini wooden bat, I have no idea what I am going to do with mine…

but it’s still pretty awesome!

Picture of the Slugger Field seal on Babe Ruth's bat

As a baseball fan it was really neat to see this, I use to play baseball and while I was never good enough to have my own personalized bats it was really neat to see where they are made.

Posing with Derek Jeter...I think...

Kentucky Derby…

Tyler and I headed towards the grounds of the Kentucky Derby. It was great to see the area, it was really pretty! We even found a way to get to the grounds…which apparently we weren't supposed to find since we were then followed by 3 security guards who looked ready to arrest us. Good thing Tyler is awesome at talking his way out of a paper bag! Once on the correct side of the fence we headed to pick up Kevin and Kaelyn for our museum adventure…

Churchill Downs...the home of the Kentucky Derby!

Church Hill Downs was amazingly beautiful, I am not a horse racing fan, but since our hotel was only about a 5 minute drive from the site of the Kentucky Derby I decided to go take a look and see what it was about, the guided tour was $15 a person, which is a little expensive for a non-horse racing fan, so Robyn and I decided to just take our own tour… apparently that is frowned upon… 

A sad story about a horse :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbaro (You can read about it here...)

Out and About…

In a party mood we headed to ‘Howl at the Moon’, a piano bar Tyler and I love to go to. This place is amazing the musicians are so talented! Most of the night was spent in song and dance…but we had plans for the next day, so we didn't stay out too late…

Eating at T.G.I.Friday's for dinner

This seems to be becoming a trend for our road trips, Howl at the Moon was located in fourth street live which was a similar complex like the power and lights district that we went to in Kansas City, makes for a great atmosphere and an amazing place to spend a weekend. 

Fun times!

Day two…Go MU…

We actually managed to wake up early enough to eat *free* hotel breakfast. Then we headed downtown to 4th street live, which is an amazing street blocked off to cars where they had big screen TVs set up, in between the bars, with live music and all that jazz. (It was St. Patrick ’s Day too.)

4th Street Live!

After lunch or should I say appetizers, which also involved beer pong, we headed to the team’s hotel to send them off.

At the team hotel with the Golden Eagle

One the way to the team sendoff I met one of the player’s (Jae Crowder) family…including Mom, Aunt, Nephew, Niece and Grandmother. It was so much fun to see everyone dressed up in their blue and gold!

Meeting Jae Crowder's family

Once we said farewell and good luck to all the players we headed towards the big screen on 4th street live. Ready for the MU game…which did not disappoint! Well done MU!

Celebrating MU's win!

I was pleasantly surprised by the city of Louisville, I had been through it previously but never quite took the time to look around, this wasn’t a bad trip as Marquette won and it made the drive and trip all worth it… given this was a 7 hour drive this was my longest drive to go watch Marquette play, however I have driven 4 hours before and seen them lose and let me tell you, that makes for a very LONG drive home… 

Taking a look at the March Madness Bracket

Well dome MU!

MU roadtrip…

Late Friday afternoon…Tyler, Kevin, Kaelyn and I all packed into Tyler’s mini-me car and headed towards Louisville, Kentucky. Marquette University is playing in the NCAA (which stands for sometimes basketball competition related) against another college called Murray State.

On the way (when I was actually awake...)

Night one was spent in the car in pretty much this cycle…sleep, wake-up, eat, pit stop for a pee break, and repeat. Once we arrived at the hotel I was ready for bed!

Happy Paddy's Day all!!!

The NCAA actually stands for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, it is basically an association that groups together all the universities in the united states and allows them to compete against each other in all sports, basketball just happens to be one of them, and every March they hold a tournament of the 64 best teams in the NCAA (a total of 345 Division 1 teams) and it is a single elimination tournament that everyone refers to as March Madness… All games are held at a neutral site across the country and it makes for a real neat event to travel to. 

Louisville, KY

As for my ‘mini-me’ car I recently started a new job which comes with a company vehicle, of course this vehicle is significantly smaller and less comfortable than my previous, but you can’t beat free right? 

"Toilet paper tree"