Glad we got out of IL before the snow and sleet started coming down this afternoon! I picked up some Grove Street Bakery pastries and took to Anne and Patrick's - enjoyed breakfast with the troops and said my good byes (I HATE good-byes). Mark was winterizing the house and always wants me out of there, so.....he was ready to go at 8:30, so I picked him up and we were off. Had some rain off and on with temps in the 40's and saw best gas price at $1.89 - yeah!!!
We had a big lunch (actually late breakfast) in Shelbyville, IN, and arrived in Georgetown, KY around 3:30, checked into our hotel and drove 8 miles (between Georgetown and White Sulphur) to St. Francis de Sales (little brick church in the country) for 4:00 Mass. Such a pretty drive thru rolling hills with lots of black fences for the horse farms and large beautiful homes set far apart from their neighbors. Also, the barns were all painted black? We googled that tonight and these tobacco drying barns are black because they absorb heat and make it hotter inside to dry out the tobacco. As for the fences, black paint lasts longer and needs repainting every 5 years whereas, white chips and needs to be painted every 2 years!!! So, there's your trivia for the day!
We weren't really hungry tonight and it was drizzling again, so we opted for the popcorn and warm chocolate chip cookies in the hotel lobby along with some wine we had with us!
Not bad for a Saturday night dinner!!!
We are 340 miles from Lake James and the NC grandchildren....
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