Kentucky or Bust

Sept 14th, 2012

Last wedding (that we know of!) to attend this year! Lots of weddings , lots of travel for the Akerson's! This time my dear cousin Andy and his gorgeous bride Rashelle, who he has been with for over a decade, will tie the knot! We are extra excited because they have asked our little Max to be their ring bearer!

Our journey started Friday a.m. At 0630 we woke our sleeping babies, dressed them and snuggled them in the car. First stop, McDonalds of course! Then to the pets hotel for a long weekend getaway for our pups! Then we set in for the drive to the airport in rush our! We made it with enough time for one and a half bathroom breaks before the plane was boarded minus the Akerson squad! So, the guy at the counter nicely gave a shout out to Robb, i mean "Mr. Akerson, to gate A11"! Poor guy! It was a small plane so it boarded fast. I think it said 76 people or maybe even less! Oh well, we all made it! The kids started off squirrelly but evened out by he time the one flight attendant passed the refreshments!

We chose to fly to the Cincinnati airport so we could drive, I thought, into Cinci for lunch. Turned out to just be a drive by, but we saw the Ohio River, the Reds stadium and the Bengals stadium! then we were off on the rest of our adventure.

Kentucky is hilarious! It started off by seeing one of the brown state parks signs for a place called Big Bone Lick, which is near Beaverlick?! Seriously, I couldn't make this up! Then we passed a water tower which had horizontal stripes alternating red and blue. It read Florence Y'all! Loved it!

Kentucky is gorgeous rolling green countryside! It's similiar, yet very different to us "up north". I loved taking it all in! Thanks to my hubby for driving! ;-)
There is so much history here, too! We are 15 miles from Perryville battlefield. I pretty sure that just driving by you can get the feeling of the battles that took place! Not to mention the Kentucky love of thoroughbreds! So cool, I just wish we had time to take it all in! Speaking of horses, Gracie was loving the brochures in the rack of all the horse attractions! Pretty sure her favorite two brochures are coming home with us! She keeps taking them out to look at them! She would get along so well with her namesake!

The town of Harrodsburg, which is our home away from home or two nights has a monument when you enter the town limits stating the settlement date as 1774! We are staying in a seedy little hotel called Country hearth. I booked via there website and guess got a tremendous deal, I guess! The lady told Robb as he checked in that our " king suite" normally goes for $150 but I got it at $95 per night! I will say its pretty deluxe! King bed, two pull out couches, a little walk-in kitchenette, bathroom and sink/ closet space! Good enough for us and our non-sleeping kiddos! They FINALLY feel asleep by 12:00 ( 11pm our time)! Gracie was up two times and the whole gang was up by 7:30! Sorry to the fellow patrons of Country Hearth for our 2 and 3am wake up calls! Thank God SO much for the two hour nap had by most of us ( I'm using part of this time to blog! :-)) and coffee! Always thanking God for coffee!

With our early start we found some nourishment and head back up the road to find the Wild Turkey Distillery! Nothing like opening up at 9am to our rowdy crew! Never even heard of the Kentucky Distillery Trail! Again, I wish we had more time!

I'll post all the wedding stuff in a separate post but the event site at Terrapin Hills farm is amazing! Time to get the family ready for the big event!!




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