Thunder Over Louisville

“Thunder” is one of the biggest fireworks displays in the country and kicks off the Kentucky Derby Festival – two weeks of charity events, parties and other goings on leading up to the first Saturday in May.  We sat close enough that the concussions shook our clothes.  The kids had a great time, even though we had to walk 45 minutes to get there.

Gallopalooza 2009

Kentucky is pretty much the horse capitol of the planet, and lots of things have grown up around the Kentucky Derby and horse racing in general.  One of those things is Gallopalooza which is an ongoing event where artists paint (and otherwise adorn) statues of horses all around town.  For 2009, they are adding 132 more statues to the program and they will be displayed all around town.  The kids had fun getting their faces painted and doing the horse scavenger hunt, while Mommy and Daddy loved looking at all of the different artwork on display.

For more, you can check out the Gallopalooza Flikr site.

It’s A Blitz

Today was Jordan’s big holiday play – and he got to sing one of the solos.  He played the reindeer Blitzen who is a big tough football player and sang a song called “It’s A Bitz”.

Of course Joshua wanted to be the star of the show too, so he fidgeted and made faces, but he clapped for his big brother all the same.

Click on the picture below to see and hear Jordan singing.  It may take a while to load since it’s 26MB.

Out Of Power

Storm Update From LG&E

As of 11:00 a.m. on Monday, September 15th, 231,000 LG&E customers and 30,000 KU customers remain without power.

At the height of the wind event, about 301,000 LG&E customers and 75,000 KU customers were without power. Strong residual winds from Hurricane Ike caused extensive damage across the LG&E and KU service territories.

Crews are on the scene working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible; however, it is anticipated that this will be an extended outage period for customers. This event has resulted in the largest number of LG&E customer outages in 30 years.

Walking With Dinosaurs Video

In Nashville we went to see Walking With Dinosaurs – you should check it out (kids and adults) if it comes to a city near you!  It’s very neat to see and not too scary.