Slugger Museum

This past Tuesday Jonathan had the day off so we took the opportunity to go see the Louisville Slugger Museum before we move. The actual museum part was smaller than I thought it would be but the bat tour was very cool. We got to see them actually making the bats for major and minor league players, branding the bats, staining the bats ... everything from beginning to end. Juliana did very well and was intrigued by everything going on. We saw Mitchell Delaney's bat's drying (who apparently is a minor leaguer who may have just been drafter to the Yankees?!?) and Mia Hamm's husband's bats drying! Afterwards we saw a special exhibit going on right now with baseballs signed by 18 different presidents. After the museum we headed down the street to find a little cafe for lunch but first I recognized a hotel I wanted to show Jonathan. He didn't understand why I wanted him to see the men's room so bad until he walked in and saw that the urinal was actually a waterfall with a one way glass wall that Jules and I were standing on the other side of waving at him. He didn't know we couldn't see him so naturally that freaked him out! And at the sink they have little TVs with different people's eyes looking at you! After that we took a quick browse of the art gallery in the hotel's lobby and found an American flag made out of little green army men then painted red, white and blue... very cool! Then it was on to lunch. We found a cute little cafe that very much reminded me of back home (D.C. that is!). All in all we had a great day in Louisville and hope to find time to keep seeing something new while we are here!

My First Bat!

Goofin off in the gift shop

That smile can brighten any day!

Giant bat out front of the museum

Giant mit made of Kentucky limestone, we took 7 pics and Jules couldn't find Jonathan up in the balcony in any of them!

She loves her daddy :)

The giant mit was open for kids to crawl through