I highly recommend it. The dining rooms are decorated beautifully with flowers and antique farmhouse type stuff. There are a bunch of antique shops (and even one that sells those miniature trees - can't think of the name right now). Plus it is right near a marina on Kentucky Lake, and sits on the North side of "Land Between the Lakes" national park, which has a beautiful drive, a planetarium, an Elk and Bison prairie, Nature center, etc. Extremely good service at Patti's too. Great place for a special occasion.
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Drove around KY on the weekends and to TN once.
Ever seen the castle on the west side of Lexington? Right in the middle of a bunch of horse farms ... can see it from Bluegrass Parkway. I sometimes drive that way when visiting parents in Columbus, OH.
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You mean Costco for their $1.50 dog and soda?
ROFL. That's a good deal actually
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I openly challeng a few folks at church over, the latest when someone deniged the local area was covered by a see or lake. Some people won't accept layered, sedimentary rock with sea shell and marine fossils prints as evidence the world is more than 6K years old.
DON'T GET ME STARTED. I'm actually part of a national movement among astronomy, geology, and biology profs (those disciplines that deal directly with time and evolution) to reform the teaching of evolution in secondary schools. LOTS of misconceptions in textbooks (orthogenesis, Big Bang was an explosion, etc.) that need to be excised and a new comprehensive interdisciplinary approach put together.
We had one of those fellows that does "Christian" tours at the Grand Canyon that give "evidence" that the canyon was carved out by Noah's flood. I forced myself to sit in the nursery and listen to it on the speaker so that I wouldn't audibly choke during the presentation. The best part about it, one of the church-goers, a devout YEC believer, unintentionally asked the best question of the night. He said, "you've been telling us there is no good scientific evidence that the rocks are millions of years old. Do you have any direct scientific evidence that the are only thousands of years old?" Answer from tour guide ... "No." Too bad no one there got the significance of that answer.
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Oh well. It isn't my job to convince someone that the laws of physics are universal and apply to everyone.
Well, in some sense, that is my job.
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Maybe Pangea was a myth.
No, the YEC'ers believe that Pangea was real, but that the flood reformed the continents. What they haven't been able to explain was how we got the distribution of animals post-flood from Noah's ark. Except hand-waving arguments about rapid "micro"-evolution and "Goddidit" type statements.
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Once she said it was going to be the TV or she was going to find a lover.
My God I hope that was sarcastic. Even so that is hurtful. I would have been sorely tempted to make a scathing retort. Hope you were able to take the high ground on that one.
Chrome
"Recollect me darlin, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos, four rotating hips"
