Reminds me of Mark Twain

So Saturday night after we got in we headed out to Ruby Tuesdays to eat dinner. I was excited because we always see the commercials at home but there isn't one close by (at least to my knowledge). The food was great, the beer was cold - all in all a really good meal. When then headed out to the local Liquor Barn, a liquor store chain that actually was owned by Safeway at one point, and was run by the guy that started BevMo. Tons of alcohol and bourbon paraphernalia, of course, since this is Bourbon Country. Got a few things there (well more than a few) and headed back to the hotel.

Sunday Morning we got up and headed to downtown Louisville - we walked around a while and had lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe. It was crazy - the only open restaurants we saw were Hard Rock and TGI Friday's. Everything else was either not open yet, or closed on Sundays. Very different from CA - it seems that southerners actually enjoy taking a day to rest - weird!

After lunch we headed over to the shore of the Ohio River and boarded the Belle of Louisville. The steamboat used to not only ferry people back and forth, but was also used to ship bourbon to states up river. The trip was quite uneventful, which was just fine as I like to do nothing while I am on vacation. They had a bar on board and I ordered a Maker's Mint Julep - yet it wasn't the actual cocktail... who knew that Maker's Mark had a Mint Julep Liqueur???

Shannon and I relaxed on the boat, watched crazy kids run around, and enjoyed looking at the houses, etc. on the shore. The river police were stopping just about every little boat out on the river (my guess looking for drunken boaters on the holiday weekend). - it was fun to watch and hoping that something crazy would go down...

Today we are headed out to a few antique malls and down to the Shaker Village. Tomorrow the distillery tours start. Yahoo!