Louisville

This is a post that somehow got deleted last summer. If it looks familiar, it was posted for a few days and then something happened that made it go away. But it is back for your winter enjoyment

Last weekend, we went to Louisville, KY for me to research the World's Championship Saddlebred Horse Show there. We brought our friend, Amanda Phillips along just for fun. (She's on the right, and my Amanda is the one saying to herself, when are you going to let us get up!?)

There was no shortage of fun to be had. Bardstown Road had some really cool shops where we spent the afternoon just looking around. First things first, we had sushi at The Dragon King's Daughter. It was excellent sushi at a great value. After lunch we stopped into Clay and Cotton. The Amanda's were looking for bargains, but all the colorful stuff in there put me in the mood to take pictures.




I believe these were rolls of paper. It might have been fabric; either way, I thought it made a fun pic.


















Then we went into this funky dress shop, but all I could look at were the Styrofoam heads wearing big hats.



This chick is pretty content with her hat. She knows she probably couldn't do much better with those wrinkles and that big beauty mark.














This girl looks like she really has something going on under her sparkly pink hat. She's got some big ole lips.















Speaking of big... This size L "reading is sexy" t-shirt was at a neat store called "Why Louisville." There were so many cool things in there I can't even begin to describe it. Maybe I can. They had a six foot tall wolf man dressed like a nerd, a box of Mr. T Cereal, some extremely colorful poodle watering cans, pretty much anything you would need.



This little elf man looks creepy, in my favorite kind of way. Like he might jump out from behind that glass and say, "At your SUUH-VICE!"









The KY State Fair was going on at the same time as the horse show. I have never seen such clean cows!





This horse show is the fanciest one I have ever seen. There was a brass ensemble in addition to the regular organist. And the same bugle player who plays for the Derby. It was truly a high falooting ordeal. You know, you might be surprised at just how much those Kentuckians know about horses! Almost as much as us Tennesseans.

Thanks to Jason and Lyndsy Hammil for graciously hosting us. And to Kent Moeller for the passes to the Fair and the Horse Show. We had such a great time!