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For our 7th anniversary we traveled to
Lexington, Kentucky. Our original plans to visit Mt. Rushmore had
to be changed at the last minute due to Vicki having problems with her
back and afraid she wouldn't be able to handle all the walking, hiking,
and biking we intended to do there. The Kentucky Horse Park was a
destination we had planned to take sometime over a long weekend so we
did some more research, made some reservations, hooked up the pop-up (on
loan from Vicki's sister for the summer), and headed on our way.
We headed out Friday, the 5th stopping in Indy to drop the dogs at Camp
Bow Wow for the weekend and arrived at the Kentucky Horse Park
campground late afternoon. It was obvious this was not a recreational campground as there were no
trails or amenities other than a couple of shower houses. Most of the
campers that weekend had horses and/or show dogs. We set up the camper,
metal detected around the camp site, went for a scenic drive, then came
back and and grilled out for
dinner.
Saturday, the 6th, we went into the
Kentucky Horse Park and spent pretty much the entire day checking out the different exhibits and museums and watching
the featured dog and horse shows. Our favorites were the Hall of
Champions where you watched a short video about a champion race horse
which included exciting clips from their winning races and then the
horse himself was led in. We also loved the sheep herding
competition where owners had dogs herd sheep through marked gates and
into a corral using only whistle commands. The whole place is pretty
amazing and we learned more than we realized we would appreciate about
horses. That evening, grilled steak for
dinner and a nice campfire ended a pretty awesome day.
Sunday, the 7th, we loaded up the GPS
and went geocaching but after logging a couple finds gave up on the rest
after finding ourselves in some unsavory parts of town. We did
have a pretty nice drive through the rolling countryside and saw
more white wooden fences, stone fences, and Ford F250 trucks then ever
before. We went back into the Horse Park, but there wasn't anything new for us there
and when we realized the
rest of the day would probably be spent just sitting around (something
that is nice to do when we actually go camping for a weekend, but not
how we had planned to spend this anniversary) we instead decided to pack
up and just head home. The trip to and the day at the Kentucky
Horse Park was actually pretty awesome and the vacation would have been
a success if we could have found something to do that Sunday or if we
could have been content relaxing and doing nothing. It was just so
different than our original plans for Mt. Rushmore, which were cancelled
unexpectedly at the last minute and kinda left Vicki in a funk.
We got home late that night and Monday,
the 8th, drove back into Indy to pick up the dogs. This was our
actual anniversary day and we just spent the day relaxing.... together.
Don't know why that wasn't good enough for us yesterday. In the
end, we marked another year together. Whether it was how we planned to
celebrate it or not, that is really all that actually matters.
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