DAY 3 KENTUCKY AND INDIANA

Hi Everyone,

Today we started our day by going to 9am mass. Would you believe that we were at mass for 2 hours!!!! We went to St. William's Church which holds an alternative type of catholic Sunday mass. They have only 1 mass per week at 9am on Sundays. There are no statues or crucifix. The priest has an altar in the middle of the room and we all sit in a circle around him in folding chairs. There is an 11-piece band (drums, piano, 3 different type of guitars and bongos plus vocalists) There were 2 homilies by a man and a woman and lots of up-beat music. At the sign of the peace, we all got up and walked around hugging and kissing EVERYONE! This took at least 10 minutes. We held hands during the mass at different points and at the part were we offer prayer intentions, people got up one by one to ask special prayers for themselves or others. Carl got up and asked for a special prayer request. At the Eucharist, the priest offers wine in huge cobalt blue wine goblets and large pita breads cut up into bite size pieces in what looked like a large ceramic pasta dish. We all wore name tags and he offered the bread to us by our name. After everyone had received communion, they came by with the rest of the pita bread and gave us all hand fulls as seconds. At the very end of mass, people come up one by one and give announcements about their families, extend invitations to their homes for dinners and asked for rides to places they need to get to. THIS WAS THE MOST UNIQUE AND SPIRITUAL MASS I HAVE EVERY ATTENDED IN ALL MY YEARS. IT WAS BY FAR THE BEST THING WE DID TODAY.

We had lunch at Lynn's Paradise Cafe which was also a very unique place. I think I am getting hooked on Fried Green Tomatoes. Emily is going to have to make this for me when I get home.

We went back to Louisville Slugger Museum and had a great time. That place is awesome and I don't even like baseball!!!!

We took a short ride to Indiana for ice cream and to look at the Kentucky skyline over the Ohio River. There is a bridge that connects KY to IN. Carl decided he wanted to cross this bridge by foot so he could say he walked from Indiana to Kentucky. So he did. He said it was breathtaking.

Other things we did today was go to Kaelin's where the very first cheeseburger was created in 1934. We visited Colonel Sander's grave site. We were fascinated to learn that he and his wife were born in September (her birthday was today) and they both died in December (him on Matt's birth date). We found strawberry cake like the one Lee makes and brought some back to the hotel for dessert. It was very good, but NO comparison to Lee's homemade cake.

Did two loads of laundry tonight (it's free at this hotel) and now going to bed. Goodnight All