Snakes, Bats, and Brunch

This post will be combining our final two days in Kentucky.

But first, a lingo question — What is the proper way, the local’s way, to pronounce “Louisville”? It’s not Lou-ee-ville. It’s not Lou-ss-ville. It’s Lou-ah-ville.

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We went to the Creation Museum in Petersburg.

There’s an outdoor, kid-sized zoo near the museum building, where we saw Cletus the Zonkey. His mother was a donkey and his father was a zebra.

The part we all liked the best was the Snake’s Alive reptile demonstration. We got to touch live snakes (including a boa constrictor!), lizards, and shedded boa snake skin.

This attraction was put together by same company as the Ark Encounter. Like the Ark, it’s well-made and family friendly, but somewhat smallish (especially when compared to the Ark!) A member of our #1 son’s church said it’s good for children.

https://creationmuseum.org/

An observation: zip lines were at attractions normally not associated with them. The Ark Encounter, the Creation Museum, and the Mega Cavern all had them. I wonder if the nearby Southern Baptist Seminary had one. (Lol!)

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Next, my sweetie and #1 son went to Cincinnati to see the Dodgers vs. the Reds.

They had seats right behind the Dodger’s dugout!

While they were watching baseball, I occupied myself at the nearby Cincinnati Public Library. It’s a beautiful, modern library, but it was sad to see several homeless men residing in there.

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Being from California, I wondered how ethnic cuisines — Mexican, Japanese, Thai, etc. — were rendered in Kentucky. My son took us to Asahi Japanese Restaurant for dinner. I ordered chicken teriyaki and this is what came to the table.

Sizzler steakhouse-style iron platter with onions and broccoli, plus fried rice. It was good tasting, and different.

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For Sunday bunch, we ate at Wild Eggs. (I noticed that “brunch” must be a thing out there. It was specially featured at several eateries in the region.)

I ordered the Sweet Home Apple Bourbon Crepes. It’s really, really good!

My sweetie ordered Kalamity Katie’s Border Benedict, which was very good.

And our son had the Farmers Market Skillet.

http://www.wildeggs.com

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We visited the home of America’s baseball bats: the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory.

This was a somewhat small operation, yet it had much in historic interests and actual historic bats you can swing.

Sadly, photography within the factory was not allowed.

They had some impressive LEGO displays.

Even though I’m a non-baseball fan, I was surprised how enjoyable the Slugger Museum and Factory experience was. The wood-working aspect of making bats, the whole process of harvesting a private forest to lathing the bats, was quite interesting.

https://www.sluggermuseum.com/

By the way, this place didn’t have a zip line.

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On Sunday, we worshipped at Sojourn Community Church, East.

This is our son’s friendly, worship place of a cross-racial, cross-generational congregation. It has a very well thought-out setting with art on the walls.

And there was this great chalk-drawing:

https://www.sojournchurch.com/east

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That’s all for now; short and sweet!

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