Stopped at the Louisville Slugger Museum/Factory on the way down. The boys loved it, and I had pretty much no idea who anyone besides Babe Ruth was.
See? Babe Ruth. His real bat.
But I got a cute tee-shirt out of the deal!
Then we stopped at Mammoth Caves in Kentucky. You wouldn't think this little door would lead you to these amazing caves.
Nate's brother Devon, and his wife, Heather, were our traveling companions.
It was a tight squeeze most of the way through the caves!
Our group exploring the caves.
Okay, well, not so much exploring, but more like being led in a tour. It was great all the same.
This has a very long story but will give you the shortened version. They called themselves an antique shop, but it was more like a junk shop with a few valuable items scattered inside. Now, I LOVE digging for goods among junk, so stopping was kind of fun. But there was a LOT of junk to dig though. I mean, a lot. We did find a few things of monetary and sentimental value though.
Once in Nashville, we stopped in at the Ryman Theater (uh, I had never even heard of it until we got to Nashville...). It was the original Grand Ole Opry, and many stars still sing there today. It's old and pretty cool.
Then we (well, Heather and I) made my favorite stop of the whole trip... Textile Fabrics. Ah-mazing. There are not shops like that here in the Lower Penninsula, sadly. We ended up going twice (well, the boys did bring the xbox - it was a good excuse!). I am now a big fan of Riley Blake fabrics... so good for little boys!
This is the Carter house, where the battle of Franklin during the Civil War was fought. The entire battle took place around this house, and it was a sad battle.
There are still bullet holes in the sides of the house and outbuildings.
Then a stop at the Carnton Plantation, which was used as a Confederate Hospital during that same battle. Now, people usually grimace when I say that there are still some blood stains on the wood floors from the surgeries, but I think it's amazing. Pretty historical to me. And it's a GINMORMOUS house.
the garden at the Plantation.
Well, I stopped taking pictures after Saturday afternoon at the Plantation, and let Heather take picures of the real reason we were down there... Our cousin Taylor's wedding.
I'll try to get those up later.
And now we are home, trying to enjoy being back to real life. Real life that includes 6 loads of laundry, tornado warnings at work, and slicing part of my fingernail off while making dinner.
I did not enjoy that last part so much.
Will post my most recently finished quilt once I can get a picture of it!
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