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Weekend Trip for Kenny Chesney..Oh and baseball bats..

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Louisville, KY; Evansville, IN; & Kenny Chesney!! August 6-8, 2011 This originally started out as a trip to see Kenny Chesney in Evansville, IN because he added a last minute show and then it proceeded to include a stop in Louisville, KY because we were already driving through. In Louisville the main thing John wanted to do was check out the Louisville Slugger Museum because he is a huge baseball fan. The museum for me was just so-so. I do not really care for baseball so it was kinda boring. John was in heaven and loved every minute. I thought the museum was too small and the tour was too short for the price of the museum. It was definitely a cool experience and I think if we had children it would have been more enjoyable. After the museum we went to find our hotel, which was about 10 minutes or so from downtown Louisville. We stayed at the Hyatt Place Louisville East . The hotel was so nice and mode...

Cincinnati, OH

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Cincinnati, OH June 26th We headed down to Cincinnati for the day/night to catch the Indians/Reds game that night as well as explore some of the city during the day. This was John's birthday present from me so it was really up to him what we did. We stopped down just north of downtown Cincinnati at a computer superstore so John could buy some things that he needed. As anyone that knows John he was in heaven the entire time we were there. Before we headed into the city we ate breakfast at Ihop since we don't have one closer to us. After that we headed into downtown. We decided to head over into Kentucky and go to Newport since it is one of our favorite areas. We headed specifically to Newport on the Levee ( http://www.newportonthelevee.com/ ) since we have enjoyed our time there before. We opted to not do the aquarium since we had just went last September and nothing changed. We had a nice few hours of walking around the shops outside and inside as well as just pe...