Having crashed early the night before, I was awake early this morning…like before the alarm I’d forgotten to turn off went off. I facebooked for a bit then got ready for the day. As soon as I started moving around, it became evident that yesterday’s cave tour had aggravated the cough, so pretty soon Nick was awake too.
Eventually we were both ready for the day and it had reached a time that made sense to leave for breakfast, so we headed for Main Street. Pretty soon we were back at Doc Crow’s.
Breakfast here was great! Service was a bit slow because they only had one server on, but she was phenomenal. The food was excellent. I had a breakfast sandwich on a biscuit and Nick probably had biscuits and gravy. I would happily eat breakfast here again. And because we were kicking off the no driving portion of the trip, we started the day with grown up beverages too.
Once we’d eaten breakfast, we headed further down Main Street. It was time to really explore Louisville. First stop? The Frazier Museum. This museum has a little bit of everything. It’s the start of the Bourbon Trail, so there’s quite a bit about that, it’s right next to the river that was part of the start of the Louis and Clark expedition, so there’s stuff about that, and plenty of other things about Kentucky mixed in too. I had snagged a groupon for here, so I think it cost $11 each to get in. It was well worth it, even if we did encounter a field trip. If you’re in Louisville, definitely make it a point to check out the Frazier Museum.
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After exploring the museum, we headed a bit further down this section of Main Street to Peerless Distillery. This was a very quick and very boring stop. They didn’t even have good merchandise and all of their bourbon was locked up.
By now it was time to start to figure out lunch. Dad had recommended a bar at the Galt House, so we decided to head there. We ended up at the Jockey Silks bar which is not the one he had recommended, but the food and beverages were very good, and the service was very good considering how understaffed they were, albeit a bit slow. I had some sort of chicken flatbread and a drink involving fruit juices and aperol. Nick had an old fashioned and..food.
Lunch consumed, we quickly detoured back to the hotel to drop off the shopping we’d done at the Frazier Museum gift shop, and then headed back to Main Street for our next distillery tour. It was a relatively short walk to Angel’s Envy from our hotel. Shortly before we reached Angel’s Envy, we passed the bank where the shooting had occurred a week or two earlier. Nick, who is big on self-defense, a firearms enthusiast, a former security guy, and the spouse of an educator, immediately began commenting on the lack of sightlines that the folks inside the bank had had and started asking me questions about sightlines at the schools I work in. I was glad when we reached the distillery!
Our tour at Angel’s Envy was great! Lyric was a great tour guide. Angel’s is one of the newer additions to Whiskey Row in Louisville, but has made a big name for itself. It’s one of Nick’s favorites, so a tour here was a must do. The tasting at the end had us fancy-like. It was the real deal: swirl the glass, look at colors, sniff the bourbon, etc. We tasted two bourbons, plus we sampled the first bourbon a second time with ice in it to learn about how water smooths out bourbon. Each bourbon was paired with a chocolate. The tasting alone was worth the admission for the tour, but really the whole experience was great.
Tour and tasting finished, we hit the gift shop, and then headed back to the hotel. We debated what to do about dinner and eventually it was decided to doordash pizza for dinner tonight. I have no idea where Nick ordered from, but we had a delicious cheese pizza in our hotel room for dinner.
After dinner we briefly considered going out for beverages, but in the end decided to just call it an early night. I think we both crashed early this evening.
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