Back from the internet black hole

It was 90F, didn't feel like Christmas

I have been unable to post since leaving Murray as the internet has been less than available in rural Kentucky, so I thought I would give a little rundown of what I have been up to since leaving Murray.

We left Murray last Tuesday for Clinton, a very small rural town at the very south-west of the state. I was staying with Keith Aiken at his house in Clinton. He spent the morning with me around Clinton, he was showing the local economy and some of the problems it was having. In the afternoon I met with the rest of the girls and we went to Columbus-Belmont State Park, where I came a close second in the crazy golf, it didn't matter though as I would have paid just to see some of the shots Laura pulled off. Hilarious.

In the evening I went to stay in Paducah at Keith's second home with his partner Liz. They had bought the house a year ago and had spent all that time restoring it. We went to the casino on a boat in Metropolis, Illinois. I doubled up on the Black Jack so it was a good night. State law only allows gambling on water, hence the casino was on a boat, but you would have never known from the entrance.

The next day the rest of the group joined us for breakfast round Keith's and we headed of to Paducah for the day. We visited the National Quilting Museum, which was very impressive. Then of for lunch at Kirchoff's bakery and shopping at the mall.

We left Paducah and returned to Clinton for our presentation. The next day we had a 5hr car journey to the District Conference at Santa Claus, Indiana. We had to give the presentation at around 9.30 the next day then the afternoon was ours. We were a little rushed for our presentation as the conference schedule was way ahead of time, but it went well and people said that they really enjoyed it.

Scary huh?

In the afternoon Pam, Tes and I went to Holiday World. A holiday inspired theme park. They have a water park and theme park in the same complex so we got the best of both worlds. Bearing in mind that it was around 90 degrees F we spent most of the day in the pool or on the slides, but Tes and I along with our friends Cory and Jennifer braved The Voyage, the World's No 1 wooden coaster. It scared the life out of us.

We left Santa Claus this morning and i'm now in Madisonvile with my new host Shane.

Tom