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April 7, 2006
This morning we checked out of our hotel and headed north. We decided that we needed to go back to the Lincoln Birthplace since we only got to tour the area for a few minutes on Wednesday. We were able to get there when it opened and explore the museum as well as see the film about Lincoln's life. The kids completed their Junior Ranger program also.
From there, we headed north to Lousiville. We took a round about way accidentally but finally arrived at the home of Thomas Edison. It was cool to see many of the inventions that Edison created while living in Louisville and working for Western Union. The house is tiny and the docent showed the kids and let them try to send Morris Code on the old telegraph machine and taught them about how Edison streamlined the process. Some of the interesting artifacts found at Louisville's Thomas Edison House include both cylinder and disc phonographs, as well as Edison Business Phonographs. An Edison Kinetoscope, the first home motion picture projector, is also on display in the museum.
From Edison home we headed to the American Printing House for the Blind. This place
is designed to promote independence of blind and visually impaired persons by providing specialized materials, products, and services needed for education and life. They actually produce Braille books at this location. Unfortunately the production line was not at work today, Friday, but we enjoyed touring the museum and learning all about how Braille was formed, how the books are made, and more. It was Darby's favorite stop on the trip! Darby continued to study Braille and now knows what each letter feels like! Cool field trip!
The weather began to look threatening and it was time to head for Lexington to pick Mark up at the Airport. But we plan to head back tomorrow afternoon to tour the Louisville Slugger Museum.
April 8, 2006
Today, after a great time at the Lexington Horse Park (see Lexington) we headed back the one hour drive to Lousiville to see the Slugger Museum. The museum was GREAT! We took the tour and actually saw the making of bats for the pros. They passed around different bats that had different professional players names etched onto that and were givien information about how each pro player designs his own bat. It was very interesting. The museum was also informative and interactive as we learned the origins of the Louisville Slugger. Grayson got to try a machine that was programed th throw pitches like all of the pros. He picked different pitchers he knew and tried his best. Sure is a lot tougher than it looks!
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