2017 Summer Vacation

This year, we decided to take a trip up to Kentucky to see Mammoth Cave. We have never been there before. The caves are only a few hours away. We started off spending the day in Nashville seeing the capitol building and downtown area.

Downtown Nashville at the County Courthouse looking towards the state capitol buuilding

County Courthouse

State Capitol building

Found some shade under a magnolia tree

At a WWI memorial, found a Jesse Pollard in the list of those who died

At the Tennessee State Museum where we spent some time cooling off. Gracie getting punished for her crimes

Walking across the Cumberland River on the pedestrian bridge

Cool building in downtown Nashville

The next morning, we went to a nice church outside of Nashville, then headed up to Bowling Green, KY. Our first stop was at Chaney's Dairy Farm for lunch and ice cream!

Isaac swinging on the playground

Lots of corn growing at the farm

What a beautiful place. We sat out here on the back porch and watched a storm come in

Logan found some pretty flowers

Isaac enjoyed the ice cream

Hanging out on the back porch

 

We then headed over to the Aviation Heritage Park a few miles away. There were four really cool places on display.

Next stop was the National Corvette Museum. Before planning this trip, we didn't even know the Corvettes were manufactured in Kentucky. This museum was very nice.

I could see David driving one of these

Isaac playing mechanic in the kids play area

Some of the Corvettes that fell into the sinkhole

The next day, we went canoeing down the Green River inside Mammoth Cave National Park. We all made it without tipping our canoe, which I was worried would happen. I was afraid to get my camera out while actually canoeing, so the only pictures are from when we stopped.

Finally, the last day we took the historic tour through Mammoth Cave. There is a lot of history to this cave.

Sign says there are currently 405 miles of caves that have been explored

Waiting to take our tour

Walking down to the cave entrance

The opening of the cave

Mind your head

Exiting the cave

After the tour, we stopped at the gift shop then headed home. One last stop before leaving Kentucky to get some lunch. Right next to the restaurant was a huge field of corn. We saw lots of corn.