This is how we knew we were at the right place! Main Street, Louisville, KY. Home of the worlds largest bat!
They had this nice bronze (I think) sculpture of a baseball mitt that was fun for the kids to climb on, and attempt, once again, to get a nice family photo.
I asked Nate to pick ONE of his MANY photos he took of the memorabilia inside the factory. This is what he chose to post on the Blog, Babe Ruth's bat!
The tour itself was a lot of fun. The kids got to see some neat things, and it is amazing how quickly they can make these bats. Taylor and Drew both got to get a personalized bat. They were so excited. Here is one last photo outside the factory, Drew has his bat ready for the pitch. Taylor tried to get hers out of the box, but she had put her little bat that we got as part of the tour down in the box and they were stuck. Toby held onto his little bat the entire drive home, and I believe Drew slept with his bat the first night home. I think they liked them!
Once we were done, we set out on the road again, stopping after a short while to grab some lunch at McDonalds. Of course, at this time, the weather was starting to get a little crazy, and we found out that the McDonald's had been hit by a power outage, and it took a little while to get our food. Once we did, we were on our way again. We drove through quite a bit of rain, but nothing too bad. As we began to near the Ohio border, excited to be so close to home, Nate noticed something fly off my dad's boat trailer, or so he thought. We called up and asked if things were driving okay, to which my dad assured us they were. We began to smell something, so we called again. After a third call to me dad, letting them know we were seeing smoke, he decided to pull of and check things out. We quickly discovered that the barings were shot on the trailer, and though my dad had an extra set, he was not going to be able to get them on. We had to park the boat at the gas station in the middle of nowhere Kentucky, and head for home without it. They have already contacted a towing company to bring it home on Monday.
So we finally have Ohio in our sites and begin to get excited... but not too fast! Traffic was a nightmare, it was rush hour on Friday, after all. We slowly got through Cincinnati and thought we were home free... not too fast! We head into Columbus thinking, do we by pass or do we drive through on 71. Heck, why not drive through, what more could happen to us... well, we didn't realize that Columbus had flooded and many roads were closed. After several detours, and about 3 car wrecks and about an hour later, we made it through Columbus.
We arrived home a little after 9:00 PM. Again, what should have been a 9 hour trip home, lasted 14 hours. We were all tired, and frazzled, but glad to be home, safely. While our trip had many detours, all were minor in the grand scheme. The Lord protected us in so many ways, and he allowed for us to enjoy our time, in between our trips home!
We also came home to some well loved pets, as our neighbor boy Derek (the one seen in several posts) was kind enough to come and take care of them while we were gone!
And now I must get off the computer, as a storm is heading our way!
God is Good!
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