After leaving Lafayatte we moved a few hundred miles south to Clarksville Indiana. Clarksville is about 20 minutes from Louisville, KY. And...you can't visit Louisville without touring the Louisville Slugger Museum & factory. Weather predictions for that day were up to 70 mph winds, so we pulled in the slides of the coach, packed up some important things & papers, (jewelry, laptop, passports etc) and headed out. We figured we would be safer in the middle of a huge factory than in the coach. If your at all a baseball fan or played using a Louisville Slugger as a kid you would thoroughly enjoy this attraction.


Front of Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory


Ron swinging Mickey Mantles bat B220 that he used between 1961-1964. Bat is made from northern white ash, is 35 inches long and weighs 32 ounces.


Stan Musials signature die. One of thousands of dies on display. These where used to imprint the players name on their custom made bats.

In the afternoon we stopped by the Schimpffs Confectionery in Jeffersonville, IN. The Schimpff family has been making candy at this location since 1891. It is currently owned and operated by a decedent of the original founders. They have candy-making demonstrations and the day we were there, they were making 3 ft candy canes to be used to decorate one of the local mansions for the holiday.

Another reason we wanted to stay in this area, was to visit Churchill Downs. So on Thursday, we visited the museum and took a tour. Even if your not a follower it is impressive to see. Of course, after visiting here, we had to go see "Secretariat".


Entrance to Churchill Downs.


I took a lump of dirt from the track for a souvenir...not sure what I am going to do with it.


Us posing in the garden with a few sculptures of horses and jockeys.


At the museum you could don jockey silks, hats, goggles etc and get up on a horse in a chute to see how a jockey feels. I'm sure this is meant for the kids...oh well.

Had a nice, short visit here.

Hope all is well!

P.S. As usual the meteorologists were a little off and the winds were maybe 25 MPH.