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Louisville, Ketucky – 2019 Kentucky Derby

May 2, 2019 

Today we checked into the Embassy Suites Hotel and we got ready and headed to Eddie Merlot’s for dinner afterward we went back to the hotel to settle in and get ready for the Kentucky Oaks tomorrow

May 3, 2019

Today we got ready for the Kentucky Oaks I wore a pink dress in honor of breast cancer survivors and a fascinator which was hand-painted ostrich feathers. After the Oaks race, we had an after-party where we saw Martina McBride perform a bunch of her hit songs.

May 4, 2019 – DERBY DAY!!!!!

Today was very exciting!  Going to the Kentucky Derby was on our bucket list and we are lucky enough to be able to check it off.

Oaks Day

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DERBY DAY!!!

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John figuring out our Derby bets

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Maria, John, Adam, Sid, Brian, Rodney, Linda & Donna
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After the Derby, our friends Donna & Rodney hired a shuttle to take us all back to the hotel. This is a video of our Irish friends having some fun singing.

Louisville Airport

We were on the plane with Bob Baffert – Legendary Horse Trainer. I asked him to sign our Trophy Room tickets.

Gifts from The Derby Experience

Louisville, Kentucky

May 23, 2017

Today we drove to Louisville, Kentucky and we had a tour set up of the grounds at Churchill Downs. When we arrived, we had some time to check out the museum with all the original handmade Kentucky Derby hats which were cool and unique. The tour was great we got to see where the trainers and the jockeys live and saw some hot walkers walk the horses around and also saw them taking care of the prized horses.

The next morning we were lucky enough to be able to come back for free to see the trainers work with the horses and run them on the track. Watching the trainers train the horses were terrific John and I both loved it. We love horses, so this was something exciting for us. When John was younger, he had a job as a hot walker at Belmont Racetrack.

We hope to one day be a part of the Kentucky Derby.

On the way to Bowling Green we stopped and took a tour of the Jim Beam Distillery which was exciting since it’s my favorite Bourbon. We had a chance to bottle our own bottle of Knob Creek and put our thumbprint in the wax seal which was very cool.

Follow us on our journey the next destination is Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Weird car we saw