Loolyville, Part 1

On the way back from Virginia last March, we stopped in in Louisville for about 48 minutes to eat and pee. The only time I'd been there before was to go to the Louisville Slugger factory, on another trip where I was just passing through. But based on those two short visits, I learned two things:
1. Louisville is loaded with places 3-year-old boys would like.
2. Louisville has Skyline Chili.

That (and enough Drury and Marriott points to score two free hotel rooms) was enough for us. Off to Louisville (note: very early in the trip Jefferson started calling it Loolyville)! Before we left town Jefferson got a Tag reading system. It came with The Cat in the Hat. You aim that pen at things on the page and magic happens. As you can see, it requires concentration.












Early Monday morning we headed for the Louisville Slugger Museum/Factory. Well, it wasn't early enough, because we had to park on the roof of the parking deck.












The museum will let you hold a game used bat, provided you wear disgusting germ-ridden gloves. Last time I held Mickey Mantle's bat. This bat was used by Johnny Bench ... of The Baseball Bunch. Duh! Note: Jefferson + filthy gloves = bliss.












Look, the head on this dummy looked more like My Cousin Vinny than Teddy Ballgame. This photo is titled: "The Two Yutes."









We asked them to make a bat with Jefferson's name on it, but when we picked it up it said "Opie Taylor."












The view from the ground.












This was a tense moment in the tee ball cage in which Jefferson and Mom reenacted the Cardinals/Reds melee from a last week, with Jefferson playing the role of Brandon Phillips and Mom playing Yadier Molina. Jefferson had earlier told the media that Mom was a stinkerbug. Mom took issue. I fined them both and we ate lunch in silence.












We finished our tour of the Slugger Museum with Jefferson auditioning to be one of those goofy kids modeling clothes in the JC Penney catalog. Weird, right?









Arrgh, ye mateys! (stay tuned for part 2)