Louisville Kentucky – Derby, Louisville Slugger Museum and Mega Caverns

So now we’re in Louisville Kentucky and at the Kentucky Derby building for a tour! We don’t watch horse racing but it’s still an iconic place that we wanted to explore. We had a great tour and saw as much as we wanted to see. It was $40 to do the tour and Alex was our guide on a tour that lasted about 90 minutes. We ended up at the Kentucky Derby cafe and had a Mint Julep, my first one and my last one…… did not enjoy it at all.

  • And we are here………
  • The Race Track
  • A game for us, you can sit on a horse and pretend you are in the race
  • Mint Julep, First One and Last One…. we did not like them at all
  • Cute little horse statue

We also went to the Louisville Slugger museumhttps://www.sluggermuseum.com//factory where they make baseball bats. Pretty cool place and we were each given a miniature baseball bat at the end of the tour to take home.

  • Such a big bat !
  • Joe Carter’s bat when he was with the Toronto Blue Jays
  • Really great displays
  • Where the bats are made

Two more stops, Colonel Sanders grave (KFC) and the Mega Caverns………..

The Caverns are set on 100 acres and some more interesting facts can be found at the link above.

  • RIP Colonel Sanders
  • At the Mega Caverns
  • Starting the drive through the caves
  • Very pretty lighting

Now where? How about some Bourbon distilleries in the area? See you next time

13 thoughts on “Louisville Kentucky – Derby, Louisville Slugger Museum and Mega Caverns”

  1. Great pics, that bat is incredibly big! KFC upsets my internal parts so I don’t eat it these days, sorry, Harlan. I love the wonderful colour in the caverns! I have no idea what a Mint Julep is but it has a funny colour. Thanks for the tour! ❤️😊

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  2. I would have really liked the Churchill Downs and Derby fun. I like the statue/burial site of Barbaro – such a sad story with that poor horse. I don’t follow horse racing, but felt badly for all the pain it suffered before finally being euthanized. I was in Lexington, Kentucky on vacation in the 90s. We were there just after the Kentucky Derby and visited Kentucky Horse Park. It was an interesting place and the burial sites for many of the famous race horses through the years. It was foal time and we got to peek in the paddocks at the foals with their mothers. I have never had a Mint Julep.

    How fun with the baseball bats. As to the Caverns, pretty amazing. Because in your last post, I learned the air force museum went by two names, I Googled to see if the Meramec Caverns were the same as I visited many years ago, but they are a similar large underground cavern tourist attraction, but in Missouri.

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      1. Yes, I don’t follow horse racing either, but I think it would be fun to be there for Derby Day with the big hats, mint juleps (even if they taste awful, just to be sociable) and watch “the most exciting two minutes in sports.”

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      3. Those are fun hats. I like watching when the Brits have a Royal wedding or some big event attended by the Royals and the women wear their fascinators.

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  3. Wow! A grand exploration you two had! Thank you for sharing your trip. I would love to attend the Kentucky Derby. Just looked up ingredients for a mint julep. I don’t think I would like it either.

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