Ty left the beginning of April and drove to Alabama for the first month. He was asked to drive to Alabama to help with another office who couldn't get their technicians licensed in time. He really didn't enjoy being there and I felt bad for him. I drove out with Kristy and her two boys Kayson and Rixen the first part of May. Ty was finally able to leave Alabama and got to Kentucky just a few days before we arrived. I was 24 weeks pregnant when we drove out and it was a 27 hour drive so of course we had to do lots of stopping along the way. The first night we drove to Melinda and Reed's house in Rock Springs, Wyoming and spent the night there. It was a good stop and is always nice to see family. We headed on our way again the next morning and stopped in Cheyenne for lunch.
On our way to Cheyenne we stopped and walked through this old prison.
We kept going and then the weather started to get bad and it was pouring rain. The radio kept cutting out and the national weather service had announced there was a severe storm warning in the area. We ended up staying in a hotel in a small town in Nebraska that night.
The next day we woke up super early and drove straight to Nauvoo, IL. We detoured a little bit in order to drive through Nauvoo, but since we were so close we really wanted to see the church history sites and the temple there and I'm so glad we did. It is beautiful there and the temple was gorgeous. We ate lunch at a cute little cafe there and then went to the different sites to look around. I wish I would have gotten more pics but here are a few.
Here is the Nauvoo temple
Carthage Jail
The Mississippi river ran along side of Nauvoo and it was really cool to see. It was beautiful and huge!
We got to Nauvoo later in the day and all their sites closed at five so we were only able to stay there for two hours but it was better than nothing. We hit the road again and drove all the way to Lexington that night. We didn't get there until 3:30 in the morning but it was so nice to finally see Ty after not seeing him for a month and I'm glad we were able to make it that night.
Our apartments in Lexington were really nice and it was so much better than being in hotels like the year before. Our apartments had a pool and a barbecue area which we spent a lot of time at both! They also had a really nice fitness center that had an indoor basketball court and racquetball room which we tried to go to every morning. The area that we lived in was really nice as well. The mall was just down the road and we had a grocery store across the street and Walmart was only about a mile away. There were a lot of libraries too and we went there quite a bit and checked out movies to watch and got books for the kids. Lexington was beautiful and very green. It was pretty hot there but not near as humid as Alabama and Georgia so it really wasn't too bad. Here are a bunch of pictures from our summer:
We drove down to Louisville a few different weekends. One weekend we went to Churchill Downs and saw the horse races. We had lots of fun and it was nice to experience new things. We didn't really know what was going on but had fun anyways ha.
The other time we drove down to Louisville we went to the Louisville Sluggers museum and took a tour there. It was very interesting and lots of fun.
Another weekend we drove to Cincinnati and spent the day there and then went to a professional baseball game and watch the Reds play.
We went to a cathedral there during their mass, it was beautiful!
Cool Bridge
We went to a pond and had lunch
We also went to a park and hung out
We walked through a butterfly exhibit
Another weekend we drove to some caves in Kentucky and a national park and had lunch.
And we found a little turtle :)
Kristy and her boys and I went on a boat ride one day down the river.
The Kentucky river was beautiful!
Here is a castle on the hill that we drove by a lot in Lexington
Here was a neat building in downtown Lexington
Sorry for all of the pictures but these are memories I don't want to forget. We had a great summer in Kentucky! We spent lots of time at the pool and got to experience and see lots of cool places and things!
