Kentucky-Bound

Well, this is the latest I have been in a while with a blog post! Hard to believe that almost a month has passed since our quick family trip to Kentucky to visit the Creation Museum and the Ark.
We left after church on Sunday, March 17, and headed down south.
We went from beautiful weather at home to snowy, wet weather in Ohio, and back to nice, albeit cloudy, weather.

This was taken in Cincinnati, OH, just before the OH/KY border.

All the layers of rock were really cool to see as we drove. This was taken from our hotel, which was right off the 275 in the middle of nowhere. It was great!

Ellia jumping on the footstool. After a 5 and a half hour trip, everyone needed to get some energy out. So we half unpacked, and then went swimming. We had both the pool and hot tub to ourselves, so that was great. Then we ate supper and watched TV before falling asleep.

The next morning we headed to the Creation Museum.

Everybody in the Creation part, reading about the Fall. I stuck to the back of the group to take pictures, mostly.

Cassia and the ark

While waiting for some who were taking washroom breaks, we stopped by a large fountain. I tried to get pictures of Joel, but he was always moving. So I think this one turned out pretty good. (Don't know what he was looking at though!😊)

After the Creation Museum, we played outside. Then we headed back to the hotel and swam some more, then watched more TV. 

The next day, we packed up and headed to the Ark. After we parked, you had to take a bus to get down to the Ark. That was a lot of fun!

Everyone walking. The picture is a little fuzzy because my camera isn't the best. ;) 

The woodworking of the Ark. That was really cool!

Looking at the animals. There were a lot of cages.

On the left is one of the many stores of food on the first floor.

Looking up into the Ark. Pictures don't show how great it looks.

Looking across before we went down.

All in all, the Ark was really cool. Some of it was an overlap of the Creation Museum, so we took it all in twice. We were also able to watch a couple of movies. We went through a small petting zoo, and the 3 youngest enjoyed that.

After, we ate lunch and headed home.

It was a pretty quick trip, just there and back again. We made it home at about 8pm Tuesday night, tired and happy from our trip. Hopefully, we will go back that way someday, whether to the Ark or not. I do love the scenery and mountains out that way!!!

Meanwhile, we are finishing up school and enjoying the nice spring weather that is hopefully finally coming our way.