Day 4

Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky

Weather: mid-80’s humid, periods of rain and periods of sun

The rain from Hurricane Isaac followed us all the way here and it caught up with us last night. There was LOTS of pouring rain for most of the night. Today the rain has been intermittent, but it has not kept us from enjoying ourselves!

We headed back over to the Creation Museum to finish what we did not see yesterday. It turned out that we actually did see everything yesterday-so we quickly went through the gift shop so the kids could get a souvenir. While we all agreed that the Museum was nice and we enjoyed it, I don’t think that honestly it was worth the cost, nor did it necessitate a 2-day visit. We went through the whole thing in about 4 hours-that included the outdoor sections and inside. We really were not rushed-we stopped and read almost everything and even watched all of the movies that they had to offer along the way.  Anyways-glad we did it, won’t do it again J

On a back-road drive this morning we happened upon a little corner that was called Rabbit Hatch Historical Preserve. Evidently it was the site of a Kentucky militia back in the days of the War Between the States. There were some old buildings and a general store that did not look like we could pass it up. We stopped and an older man was sitting on the front porch of the general store. We asked him if it was someplace we could go inside? He said the lady who ran it wasn’t there yet, but he’d be happy to open it up for us! It turned out to be exactly what we thought it might be-a really old general store with all of the usual things-some useful stuff, old tin signs, jars of jams and homemade mustards, t-shirts, etc. The man asked us where we were from and turned out that he was once stationed at NAS Pax river back in the 50’s after he had served in the Korean War. Neat stuff! Eric got a cool shirt and we were on our way.

We made another stop at Graeter’s for some more of that fabulous ice cream-everyone got a different flavor today.

As long as it’s not pouring, we are planning on another hike before the day is up, and getting a load of laundry done before we move on to the next spot!

One of the challenging things we have found while traveling that we did not expect was finding places to fill up with air-I think I mentioned that before. We decided that we should have brought our small air compressor and that would have eliminated that problem. So today we also found a Lowes and got a small air compressor to keep in the RV so we can put air in any of the 10 tires on both vehicles any time we need it-which seems to be more often than we anticipated!

Meals today: Breakfast-cereal for the kids, eggs for the grownups

                     Lunch-packed sandwiches at the museum

                     Dinner-Lasagna from the freezer (cooked in our oven) and salad

There are so many barns here in Kentucky that have these different "quilt block" designs painted on the sides of the barn. So far we can't find anyone who can tell us what they mean!

 The general store in Rabbit Hash

 T-Rex at the Creation Museum

Eric in his signature tourist shirt photo op