Day 2… battlefield corvettes and ice cream

As we left Cumberland Falls State Park,

We stopped by the gift shop for our travel tree ornament, and boys found some Bean Boozled Jelly Beans. So if you’re not familiar with these, you and your opponents pick the same jelly bean to eat – for instance, you both eat a white jelly bean. In Bean Boozled, one of you would get vanilla flavor and the other would get spoiled milk 🤢. This is a game only boys would think is fun 🤣.

We made it through 2 beans before 😝

Shiracha bean for the win 🤣😂🤣

Next stop, Mill Spring Battlefield in Nancy, Kentucky. The museum is surrounded by cows and the boys kept trying to pet them… but the “quietly approach” them part of the process seemed difficult for these two 🤣

And yes! They had plaques

This was an early civil war battle called the Battle at the Fence because at times during the battle, the Union and Confederate Soldiers were sticking their guns through the same fence. It was an important Union victory to break the defensive line across southern Kentucky. The museum was interesting and thankfully they had a good sense of humor and were kid-friendly 😊

Even the Civil War soldiers were
Covid friendly 😷

After the museum and video, we took part of the driving tour through surrounding fields. During this battle, there was so much fog and smoke from the musket firing that the soldiers got confused about who was firing at whom. Confederate General Zollicoffer rode out to check and crossed into Union troops. They did not immediately recognize him as a confederate because of his big winter coat… that is until one of his officers came running and yelling his mistake! Zollicoffer turned to fire just as the Union troops fired on him. Zollicoffer fell and died laying next to a huge tree, that became known as the “Zolli tree”. It stood until a Thunderstorm in 1995, and a seedling of the original tree was planted in the same spot in Zolli’s Field.

There are Union troops buried here in a sight similar to other battlefields

There is also a mass grave for confederate soldiers. The museum attendant told us a local legend that the confederate soldiers were once buried in individual shallow graves but because of a wet Spring that year, the bodies began to come back to the surface. Local farmers collected the bodies and interred them in a mass grave. One of the farmer’s 9 year old son was made to assist and legend says he went insane afterwards.

It was one of the nicest battlefield museums we’ve seen, and the driving tour was really well done. These three thoroughly enjoyed it.

Now, back on the “Holiday roooaaaaadddd”🎶. Mom’s restaurant was open for business again, so we ate and traveled…

On to Bowling Green, home of the Corvette Museum. We aren’t really “car” people. Got 4 wheels, an engine and gets us from A to B? ✔️ good enough for us. But the museum was still pretty cool. We all found our favorites- Mike and I like the older models but the boys want the newest and flashiest… hope this isn’t an indication of their future girlfriends and wives 🤦🏻‍♀️

This car was actually in the Transformers movie which we thought was awesome

He’s an autobot (the good guys for you non-transformer people)

But the best part was the Corvette simulator! Everyone took a turn driving, and everyone crashed… I’m hoping a real Corvette doesn’t drive like that

They didn’t mind being passengers either 😉

As we left, we saw an classic car dealership so we stopped by Art’s Auto Mart for a visit. It was really cool! And huge warehouse of classic Empalas, Corvettes, Mustangs, BelAirs, Chevelles, Trans Ams.

Mike and I loved this one – can you name the movie?

The boys just couldn’t understand why you want an old car when you could have a new car! 🤣

We went to hotel to check in and boys spend an hour or so swimming (read wrestling in the water) to get some energy out. Then we headed to dinner at Double Dogs at the suggestion of the front desk attendant.

Wow! She was right on the money! The food was delicious- HUGE hot dogs and burgers, and the best Mac and cheese I’ve ever had. Plus we loved that it is a Kentucky chain named after their two dogs ♥️🐶