Road Trip!

Each year K and I try to go on a vacation. Now, this vacation might just be a few days, but it's still away to get away from work (in K's case) or the house in general. This year we had been pretty set on just driving a couple hours to get to Cincinnati and exploring the city. However! K's co-worker had recently taken a trip to Nashville, TN and bragged it up big time. K was in awe of the cool sounding bars and general country atmosphere. So we threw the plans for Cinci in the trash and decided to venture to Nashville instead.

A few days before we left, we changed our plans a little bit more and decided that, while the city would be our main goal, we also wanted to do some general exploring. On the way down we stopped at a rest stop outside of Louisville, KY and found some super cool looking brochures for places in KY. One of which was the Jim Beam distillery. We plugged its address in the GPS and guess what? It was about 5 mins away from our rest stop! How cool was that? So we went there and also a really cool cave, The Lost River cave. You could literally take a pontoon boat ride through this cave. And the neatest part? Back in the 20's the enterance to the cave was actually a night club. People had put in a bar, hung a large chandalier, and put in a concrete floor. They said now this place is not only used for tours, but also parties and weddings. Super awesome.

After arriving in Nashville, we decided to take a dinner cruise and then make our way to the Jack Daniels distillery in Linchburg, TN. I must say, that distillery's tour was free and awesome. Totally worth the drive. The dinner cruise was eh....a bit hokey but worth the experience. I must say however, we were shocked at the price of the drinks on board the boat. It was probably the most expensive beer Ken has ever had and for me, the most priciest bottle of water ever!

On our way home we stopped at Mammoth Cave for a 2 hr cave tour and then found the coolest little park. This park had a really big slide down a huge hill, a chair lift, bumper boats, horse rides, etc. Ken tried out the slide while I rode the chair lift. Pretty cool!