7-13-2018 Thank you DD & Happy Birthday GS#1

Upon the return home

I found these two gifts from my dear daughter

on the kitchen countertop...

a little log cabin charm for my charm bracelet

and some discontinued purple nail polish I've been wanting.

Thank you so much!

And thank YOU for watching the house and kitty

while we were away!

And, thank you for joining us on the first leg

of vacation at the log cabins

for my 65th birthday!!!

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And happy 6th birthday to grandson #1 today!

(on the left in this photo)

Love you with all my heart!

7-12-2018 Heading Home

Heading back home from Kentucky to Iowa

we had cloud cover almost the entire way

and never got rained upon. Whew!

I must say, we saw the most beautiful clouds

during this vacation...

every day!

7-11-2018 Corsair Distillery

After a delicious lunch at Wild Eggs...

and a quick trip to the dairy barn for an ice cream cone...

...we returned to downtown Bowling Green KY

for a tour of the Corsair Distillery

and loved their advertursome mixology!

10 pounds of vanilla beans in that bag

to flavor the liquor...

Here's were they hand mix the herbs and spices...

...and do their hand bottling and labeling

 and boxing and shipping of all their small batches.

Loved this town's flat themed water tower!

More pretty clouds as we drove back to the BnB.

for our final night of vacation.

7-10-2018 Cedar Sink Trail

We hiked the Cedar Sink Trail

in Mammoth Cave National Park

in the rain.

While DH went down to the bottom of the steps

to see the sink hole/karst/cave ceiling collapse...

 I stayed up top and photographed moss and stuff...

7-9-2018 Mammoth Cave

DH took one of the many tours available

for one section of the cave

(there are over 400 miles in this cave!)

I stayed above ground and knitted and people watched.

Caves are not my thing.

7-8-2018 Serenity Hill BnB

Inspired by our wonderful stays

at the Chestnut Street Inn in Sheffield IL,

DH decided to try out another BnB...

Serenity Hill BnB

 during our Kentucky vacation...

and it was amazing!!!

This (and many others!) cute gnome greets you 

as you come up the driveway.

We spent most of our time here

on the spacious front porch

watching the hummingbirds.

Common areas where we met some of the other guests...

early morning coffee bar...

Our room...

had a king sized bed... seating area...

and large en suite...

This BnB was just minutes from Mammoth Cave

and lots of hiking trails.  :-)