Kentucky Fried Vacation

During the 2017 Thanksgiving week the fam (consisting of Mr. Husband Sir, PB, and myself) decided to get out of town...waaay out of town. Sketchy cell phone service all the better. We had to do this for our holiday sanity, we weren't going on another guilt trip with our families.  

 The primary focus of this trip was going to be stress free relaxation, not filling every moment with squeezing in a billion things to see and do.

As Andy (in the Andy Griffith Show) said in "Andy's Vacation" (S04E22) he was just going to lay around, read the National Geographics, and just take it easy.  That was our family mantra for this trip.

We had taken a short excursion through Cave City, Kentucky back in 2015 and had a great time.  It was less than 24 hours that we were there and wanted to stop in again.  PB and I set to searching the Airbnb site for any place in Kentucky knowing that a stop in Cave City had to be part of the deal.  Our trip, for the most part, turned out great.  Even the not so great moments have made for interesting stories.   The next several posts will be all Kentucky Fried vacation!

On the first day of the trip we did go to the downtown Louisville welcome center because we heard HE was there! 

A life sized waxed Colonel Sanders! 

Around the corner was a telephone with the Colonel giving advice on the other line.

"If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean!"

On display was one of the original Kentucky Fried Chicken pressure cookers (for Jenn's viewing pleasure!). 

One display shelf of many featuring collectibles and vintage bits of KFC history.  I particularly liked the newsletter header of "Out of the Bucket"!

An authentic suit with an illustrated time line on the wall. 

We took plenty of photos in our own Colonel-wear and even used them for our Kentucky Fried Christmas photo.  The staff at the Welcome Center were all crazy happy about us (they gave us some fancy Louisville water bottles for free even!).  The only advice I have to pass on is there is not a bathroom in the welcome center!  We had brought our outfits separate (I like the Colonel and all but we weren't going to strut around downtown in white suits!).  The boys were able to get their shirts on no problem and had to skip the proper pants.  I wound up ducking behind the pressure cooker, stripped down my top to only my bra and hurriedly got my white button up shirt on.  If they have cameras in there I gave them a bit of a welcome myself.  I have never heard of a welcome center without a bathroom.  That's one of the primary points of them!  I guess you have to make sure to stop off in Tennessee for that kind of business.

Past Kentucky Fried Colonel posts to munch on:
National Fried Chicken Day 2015
Chicken in the Trick or Treat Bucket
Kentucky Fried Wigwam Night
Wishing you a Kentucky Fried Christmas 2017
Will You Be My Chicken-tine?