Friends and a Conference - Tuesday, 27 May 2025 - Louisville to Frankfort to Louisille

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Despite having lived in Kentucky for 5 years and visited so many times after, we had never toured the capitol at Frankfort. Barbara booked a trolley type tour around the city and then a tour of the capitol itself for the afternoon. So off we went. 

We were the only ones on the morning tour and it was nice, but the guide couldn't figure out the microphone and so we missed a lot of the commentary. But we did get a good sense of the city and some of its sights. 

Kentucky's Governor's Mansion

We had some time before the afternoon tour and so decided on a cute little restaurant right up the street from the Visitor's Center. The service was a bit slow, but the food made up for it. I had a wedge salad and Earle a flatbread.

Then up to the Capitol Building. We were very fortunate to get to tour the building since it was going to be closed in the next week for major renovations. Charles' handicap pass enabled us to park very close to the accessible entrance since it had started to rain a bit more. 

The building is beautiful and is supposedly the 2nd most stunning state capitol (PA is first) with some areas already under going renovation. The rotunda is reminiscent of the Washington Capitol with statues and dome. 

A quilt in the visitor's lobby

Abraham Lincoln

Henry Clay

 

Alben Barkley

Ephraim McDowell

Unfortunately, Governor Beshear had just left the building when we had arrived. 

The Kentucky First Ladies miniatures were interesting.

Our guide was excellent as we then headed up to the State Reception room and Judicial area

The Legislative Floor was in the process of being renovated so a lot was removed.

Before leaving the grounds we stopped at the floral clock and a view of the outside of the building.

 

Since we were so close we then opted to go to Rebecca Ruth's for some sustenance for some in the group. We had toured there a number of years ago so Earle and Charles just bought chocolates. 

 Then headed back to Louisville after a really fun day. Mark was waiting at the house when we got back and it was so good to talk with him. It is hard to believe that our children are now 46 years old. How we have loved watching them grow up and become such wonderful adults. 

Since we had had such a substantial lunch, we opted to eat leftovers. There was all sorts of food in the refrigerator and with a glass of wine, made a great dinner.

Got things packed and ready to go for the morning and then a bit of TV before all of us dosed in and out of couch napping!

Listened to some of the Pirates game before falling asleep and was so surprised that they staged a major comeback against the Diamondbacks 9-6.