Back to Louisville

We're back in Louisville to take Sue to catch her plane back home to the West. We decided to drive up after Mary Ann finished her tutoring job (it runs in the family) and stay overnight rather than worrying about getting here on time in the morning. We are at the Best Western (with unbelievably slow wirelss access) and I was able to pick up my extra car key fob that Brian left for me. I forgot to get it before I left Louisville, but we arranged for me to pick it up tonight. It's good that I have it because I would hate to start back across the country with only one way in and out of my car!

Yesterday was another great family day. After church, we went to Dee's house for taco salad and sour cream cheesecake -- yum! Christopher came for lunch as well and graciously granted our request for a song. He sings so beautifully and with such feeling. What a treat.

Last night, Dee and Amy brought corn on the cob and we ate "corn and 'maters" (that's the way you have to say it around here.)

We also helped Amy with her "egg drop" experiment. I probably should say we interfered with the experiment in order to get pictures! She was successful, and as you can see, the egg did not break!

Sue and Mary Ann and I did a quick run past Slavans -- the "homestead farm" where the Bybees lived until Mary Ann bought her present house after Euel died. The road to Slavans isn't a great road to drive, but it goes through some of the most beautiful scenery in South Central Kentucky IMO. Here, you find rocky outcroppings, rugged, tree-covered ridges and deep valleys. The road winds around and through these hills and "hollers". In fact, we even took a detour via Clark Holler -- a tiny, winding road some 8 miles long, along which are found numerous homes hiding in little glens and along ridges. Most of the homes are small and poor-looking. Some are very carefully tended and others are veritable junk heaps. It is hard to imagine that a 65 passenger school bus can navigate the sharp hairpin turns as the road climbs and dips at very steep angles. As usual, pictures do not do justice to the beauty we see, but Sue took a few pictures that might give at least a flavour of the countryside.

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We passed some of the better-known scenery on the way to Louisville -- lovely fenced fields looking more like golf courses than pastures; freshly painted wood fences and barns. This is more of the "Bluegrass" Kentucky. Maybe I can get some pictures on the way home tomorrow. We have Mary Ann's camera. Mine still doesn't work and I'm work and I'm pretty much confused about what to replace it with.

All right -- that's it. I've tried to upload pictures for about 40 minutes with no luck. This connection is pathetic. I'll upload them tomorrow when we get home.