Elizabethtown, Ky

Well, we have been here for almost two weeks.  We were only planning to stay one week.  Would you believe it was snowing when we got here.  Well, it has snowed off and on while we have been here.  It is cold.  Tom & I decided we do not like the cold weather.  I look at what the weather is like in Cheney-town, and it is comparable to what it is in Elizabethtown.
   We came to spend the time with Andy and his family during his 40th birthday.  We went to the gun shooting range for Andy's 40th birthday.  Andy, Erika, Mitch and Alex are pretty good at hitting the target.  Mitch was determined to get me out there.  Someone obviously needs to teach me how to hold a gun before I ever pull the trigger.  I am so far away from knowing what I am doing on a gun range.  I was so really out of my element.  Big time!  
   We went to the Swopes Museum again.  They let Tom set in the $4,000,000 all original non-restored Packard.  Tom was determined to go the the Corvette factory.  Would you believe this is the one time of the year they are closed to the public because "they are working on the 2014 corvette plans" and cannot let anyone see what they are doing.  It is a big secret.  So we just drove around the outside and took pictures.  We went through the museum last year, when we were here.
   We went to the Jim Beam Distillery  and got to help do some bottling of the whiskey.  They would not let us keep what we bottled, though.  Darn it anyways!  It was fun.
   We went to the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory and we got to see how bats are made.  As you can see, they gave us our very own bats.  They are rather pint sized in comparison to the real thing, but hey, I am not fussy.  I think my bat is pretty cool.

   From here we are headed south.  Some place where the sun is shining and the air is warm.  Much warmer!    Talk to you soon.  Patty & Tom

Pigeon Forge, TN

We went to Pigeon Forge, TN, thinking we would go to Dolly wood   The joke was on us.  They are closed until March.  We did go to some really good shows while there, however.  The Hatfields' & McCoys' and Comedy Barn.  We truly enjoyed ourselves.  There was a store there that was Stages West.  We just had to check it out.  It had some pretty neat stuff in it.  And of course the Happy Days diner.  What can I say!  We also went to the Bush Bean factory.  We did not get to meet Jake the talking dog, personally, so obviously we did not get the secret recipe.  We did a get a picture taken with him, however.  We did get to see some of his movies.  They serve a very good lunch at their factory, that is for sure.  Tom got a pretty good picture of the flying pig.  We are now in Lexington.  It is colder here than it is Cheney-town.  16 above.  If we were not going to see our son in Elizabethtown, we would definitely not be this far north.  Tom keeps talking about doing some sightseeing in Lexington, but somehow I just cannot get excited about going out in 16 degree weather to seeing anything.  Talk to you soon.  Patty & Tom