On June 26, we left for our much anticipated trip to Kentucky. The original plan was to leave very early on Wednesday morning, but at the last minute, we decided to leave on Tuesday evening and drive partway so we wouldn't have to drive so far on Wednesday. Our first stop Tuesday was at the rest area near Battle Creek, MI where we met up with Uncle Craig, Aunt Michelle, Marybeth and Jenna -- we then drove on down to the rest stop just north of Auburn, IN to stop and spend the night. It wasn't an awful night, but none of us slept too well -- we forgot about the fact that the truck drivers leave their big rigs running all night long, so it was a little noisy.
Wednesday morning we drove on into Auburn, IN where we had breakfast at Bob Evans and Grandma & Grandpa Gormley caught up with us. We spent the rest of the day driving.
Thursday we went to the Lost River Cave and got to take a boat tour of the cave, visit a butterfly house and David and Marybeth tried out the climbing wall. Then, in the afternoon we went to Beech Bend Waterpark and played in the water. Unfortunately, we didn't get to play in the water as long as we would have liked since a thunderstorm rolled in.
Friday morning Daddy, Mommy, David and I took a little drive up to Elizabethtown, KY to see Daddy's online friends. Jerry and Barb Garlish live in Elizabethtown and Chuck and Jan from Virginia were also passing through so we were able to see them as well.
Saturday we went to see the Mammouth Cave and took a 2 hour walk through the caves.
Sunday we went to a really neat zoo called Kentucky Down Under which features animals from Australia. We got to go on another cave tour there, see and pet lots of animals, and mine for gold!
Monday was the long drive back -- we had a lot of fun, and thought Kentucky was beautiful!! Mom has uploaded a few of her many pictures -- you can see them by clicking on the Kentucky link to the right.
~Jonathan
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