After a full weekend of Bluegrass fun-in-the-sun, Gordy and Maureen left Sunday morning to finish their cross-country trip out West. The rest of us went to Church and then I took Cindy out for a nice Sunday drive to Frankfort, our State Capital, and to the Kentucky Horse Park located in Georgetown. The Horse Park hosted the World Equestrian Games a few years ago and includes over 1,200 acres of a working horse farm with multiple indoor/outdoor arenas and stadiums, tons of out buildings for everything horse related, and so much more. After our traditional Sunday dinner with Aubrey and Raul, we crashed early before another full day of site-seeing on Monday (this was Cindy’s first time in Kentucky). Cindy said that it was on her bucket list to some day visit all the major cities in the U.S. so I couldn’t let her leave without showing her our closest city, Cincinnati! However, anyone who lives here knows what a nightmare it is to cross the bridges from Kentucky into the city, so I decided we would stay on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, and look at the views from there. We did, however, cross the bridge into Cincinnati on foot, and walked the river walk in downtown Cincinnati until I got lost and had to use my GPS to get us back Newport on the Levee (one of my favorite places in KY) on the Kentucky side of the River. The bridge we walked back on is called The Purple People Bridge, it really is the color purple, and only people and pets are allowed on the bridge. The bridge also has fun interactive things to do like hop-scotch and it even has a place where you can lock your heart with the one you love by placing a padlock on a chain-link section of the wall–it was fun to see all the different kinds of locks. Back at Newport we ate lunch at Tom & Chee’s (which was still in business even though I heard it closed down) which makes delicious grilled cheese sandwiches (I got the grilled Krispy Kreme donut cheese sandwich and Cindy got the grilled turkey club) and tomato soup (we both got the tomato basil soup). After our late lunch we drove the hour back to Georgetown before traffic got too crazy. We then walked around Yuko-En on the Elkhorn, Georgetown’s very own Japanese Garden. On the way home we drove through our old neighborhood, where I showed Cindy our two previous homes (that were located on the same street), as well as our current neighborhood, which is built around Cherry Blossom golf course. Also, Monday morning, on our way to Cincinnati, we drove past TMMK which covers almost all Cherry Blossom Way, which is the main road we live off of. TMMK or Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. is Toyota’s largest vehicle manufacturing plant in the world, it spans over 1,300 acres and employs over 9,000 team members. Annually TMMK produces 550,000 vehicles (Camry, RAV4, Lexus) and more than 600,000 engines. So as you can imagine, it’s pretty massive, and like I was telling Cindy, it is it’s own city with everything from restaurants, doctor’s offices, and daycare, to a huge athletic complex, bank, plus so much more. Even with everything we were able to see, there is still so much more I want to show Cindy (The Ark Encounter, inside of TMMK, and the horse races, just to name a few). We’ll just have to see those things during her next trip to Kentucky, but also plan for a little more down time, and sleep!