Flat Stanley visits KY

We were lucky to have a visit from Flat Stanley from South Jordan.  Jayden sent him our way to hang out for a bit and we had a great time with him.   This is what Flat Stanley told the kids back in Utah about his trip.  

The first picture is of me in front of the downtown area of Louisville. 

I am actually standing in Indiana. So I got to visit both Kentucky and Indiana.  See how big that river is?  It is the Ohio River and it is HUGE! Way bigger than any river I have ever seen in Utah.  Luckily they had a big bridge so I was able to drive over it and make it safely into Kentucky.  

I think I would have got pretty tired if I had to swim across it.    

  I was so happy because I made to Kentucky just in time for Halloween. I got dressed up as Harry Potter and went Trick-or-Treating.  I got so much candy, and ate it all in one night.  I think I ate way too much because my tummy hurt when I was done eating it all. I guess next year I better not eat all my candy in one night.

I also saw some really cool things while I was in Kentucky. One of my favorite places was the Louisville Slugger Museum and Bat Factory.  I love baseball so it was cool to see how baseball bats are made.  See that picture of me in front of the Gigantic bat, that bat is the World’s Biggest Bat!

 It is made of steel, it weighs 68,000 pounds and stands 120-feet tall (that is the same length as over 3 school buses parked in front of each other.)  I also saw one of the Bats Babe Ruth used to hit lots of his homeruns.

Another place that Louisville is famous for is Churchill Downs.

This is a well known horse race track that first opened in 1875- that was over 135 years ago. There are lots of horse races held here but the most famous one is the Kentucky Derby . This race is held every year on the first Saturday in May. It is 1 ¼ miles long. This race is known as the “Most Exciting Two minutes in Sports.”   The name of the horse that won this year is, “Animal Kingdom.”

Do you like to eat at Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Kentucky Fried Chicken?  I know I do.  See the picture of me in front of the ‘KFC Yum! Center,’  that is the name of the company that owns those fast food places.

 ‘Yum!’ is the world's largest fast food restaurant company—nearly 38,000 restaurants around the world in more than 110 countries. The first KFC was originally in Kentucky but then the first franchise of KFC was actually in Salt Lake. Cool huh?

I also visited this neat Water Tower.

 It is the oldest ornamental water tower in the world. It was built 1857-1860 and is 169 feet tall.  That is even taller than the baseball bat.  They made it look like a Roman Column. The tower was damaged by a tornado in 1890 and was named a National Landmark in 1971.