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POSTCARDS FROM KENTUCKY

June 18, 2014 by jessica Leave a Comment

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A trip to Kentucky over Memorial Day was just what we needed to curb our wanderlust until we head to Belgium next month. We had been itching to get something on the calendar earlier, but each time we talked about a destination (Puerto Rico! Miami! San Francisco!), our upcoming Euro trip reminded us that we really didn’t have the money to spend on a second significant vacation in 2014. Enter Louisville. We’ve already been to the city, but it was just a seven-hour road trip away—far enough to feel like a vacation, but close enough to avoid the expense of airline travel.

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Outfit 1: LOFT dress | Rivet & Sway sunglasses c/o | Hermes bracelet | Jennifer Meyer x J.Crew bracelet | Cynthia Jones ring c/o | Lacee Alexandra ring c/o | Sam Edelman sandals | Coach bag | YSL nail polish

Outfit 2: Rachel Zoe romper | Tory Burch wristlet (also love this one) | Hermes bracelet | Rivet & Sway sunglasses c/o | Cynthia Jones ring c/o | Lacee Alexandra ring c/o | Sam Edelman sandals 

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BON VOYAGE

May 23, 2014 by jessica Leave a Comment

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…and we’re off!

I won’t be updating the blog while we’re away (aside from Sunday’s scheduled “Bauble of the Week”), but there will be plenty of bourbon-laden Instagrams to document our trip to Kentucky. I hope you have a relaxing Memorial Day weekend!

The above photo is from our 2012 trip to Louisville. Yes, those are penguins on the roof of 21c. The staff moves them to new locations in the hotel-restaurant-gallery hybrid each day. I’d love to spend the night here, but a more budget-friendly hotel is just fine with me.

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Postcards from Kentucky, Part 2

June 7, 2012 by jessica Leave a Comment


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Of all things to fall in love with, the grates around the trees were one of my favorite details in Louisville.

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The Louisville City Hall Annex was built in 1909 and includes statuary heads of animals that were important to the city’s agricultural history.

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A fleur-de-lis adorns each street sign. 

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Tickets for our Mammoth Cave tour. Word of advice: buy these online before your visit. All of the day’s tours were sold out by the time we arrived. Also, we were surprised that Mammoth Cave is on Central Time while Louisville is on Eastern. We had a lot of time to kill.

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But that gave us time to take photos of the scenery. That long-sleeve tee didn’t last long – it was 100 degrees.

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Thankfully, it was much cooler in the cave – after the 250-stair decent into Mammoth.

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Dinosaurs inhabit nearby Cave City at Dinosaur World, a fantastic roadside attraction.

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The beasts are full-size replicas with “informative” signs about the species. The general theme was “scientists think … but they’re not actually sure.”

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Seriously. Awesome.

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A more culturally appropriate stop was at the Buffalo Trace distillery. I didn’t expect the air to be thick with bourbon and I’m pretty sure you can get a contact buzz from the fumes. (They should really sell bourbon-scented candles in the gift shop.)

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Each of these barrels contains Pappy Van Winkle (aged for 23 years) and $10,000 in revenue.

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And, yes, there’s a buffalo on the property.

Bourbon was certainly a theme to our trip and we successfully completed the Urban Bourbon Trail. The mint juleps at the historic Brown Hotel were by far the best – and most expensive – we tasted.

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However, my Wisconsin roots are deep and I still prefer brandy in my Old Fashioned.

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Postcards from Kentucky, Part 1

June 4, 2012 by jessica Leave a Comment


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Louisville’s namesake: King Louis XVI

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We drank plenty of bourbon, including mint juleps at Churchill Downs.

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I almost bet on this horse because of the pretty color it was sporting, but opted for another. The horse I bet on lost, but so did number nine.

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Later, I placed a $5 bet on a winning horse and came away with $11. High risk, high reward.

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I would have loved to stay at 21c, which is a hotel, museum and restaurant rolled into one. The venue has plastic penguins that change location everyday. The second time we walked past the building, there were a dozen lined up on the roof.

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He also mysteriously disappeared the next time we walked past.

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They even used small penguin pins to post the dinner and drink menus outside of the restaurant.

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Artwork extends into Proof on Main, the bar/restaurant of 21c.

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I couldn’t resist a ceramic penguin to bring home. Dave isn’t content with its location on the bookshelf and insists on moving it throughout the house. 

The world’s largest baseball bat resides outside of the Louisville Slugger factory and museum.

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The vault holds every bat model that the company has produced.

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Next door, a baseball hits the building housing the Kentucky Mirror & Plate Glass company.

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A statue of Thomas Jefferson given to the city in 1901.

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