Spring Break Adventures: Yahtzee in a Wigman

Well, this was a memorable Spring Break! We stayed fairly close to home this year and just headed into Kentucky for a few days of cheap thrills! First and foremost was our excursion into Indian territory...actually, it was just Cave City, KY, and there are no actual reservations there. BUT there is the infamous WIGWAM VILLAGE!!!! http://www.wigwamvillage.com/

Wigmam Villages were built in the 1930's as tourist attractions, mostly along Route 66 out west (you may have seen one in the Disney "Cars" movie.) The are only 3 still in existence and we are "lucky" enough to live just a couple of hours away from one!! Yee-haw! It is definitely not what I would call "4 star accommodations" but it was just one of those things that I thought would make for some lasting memories for the kids...some pleasant and some not so pleasant, but definitely a trip worth remembering!! The interior of our Wigwam #9 was all of about 250 sq.ft....not much room for lounging. But after a big buffet dinner at the local watering hole, we all piled on the beds, watched American Idol (they did have cable TV!) and then stayed up playing Yahtzee 'til bedtime. What a night!

The next morning, we hit some of the other "touristy" destinations in the Mammoth Cave area and had a blast on go-carts, alpine slides, etc... (actually, i was not a participant on the "Yes..i DO want to die today!" alpine slides. R U Kidding me??? You could not pay me enough money to get on those death traps. It's not the slides that bother me, it's the ride up on the ancient ski-lift thingy. I secretly think that these alpine slide places scour the countryside watching for ski resorts to go bankrupt and shutdown and liquidate their inventory so they can get a ridiculous deal on a ski lift....all the while knowing that the reason that the ski resort went bankrupt was because people had DIED on their malfuntioning sub-standard ski-lift. Just a theory, but still valid, IMHO. I watched from a distance and prayed for my children and husband to be spared from the obvious impending deathly danger that they did not take seriously AT ALL! They were actually smiling and laughing while hanging 30 ft above the ground on that tiny piece of rusty skinny metal, oblivious or uncaring that the were so close to Death!!!!) then we headed to West Kentucky to spend a couple of days with Kevin's parents.

We took the scenic, back-road route to make the trip more interesting....here is the ferry we had to get on to cross some river...don't remember the name. It was a little scary, but the kids thought it was the coolest!