Shel: Didn't get out of bed until after 7 :)! Leisurely breakfast and then headed to Bardstown.

Our first stop was Heaven Hill Bourbon Heritage Center. They don't distill the bourbon there, but age it and bottle it. They have bought out many labels over the years and they make the different label bourbons by mixing the age and alcohol content. They also have rum and vodka trucked in and they bottle that.

Geni: Went to Bardstown today for the Bourbon tour, which was interesting. Bourbon tasting was fun to do however do not believe either of us will become bourbon drinkers. We got a chocolate bourbon ball after the drinking, and that was tasty. Went to Stephen Foster Park, which was a bait and switch, because it was Judge Rowan's house and he was a cousin who they claim Stephen Foster visited. Foster wrote so many songs including My Old Kentucky Home, which is the state song. He wrote Oh Susannah and I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair for his wife, Jane (which we didn't understand).

Took Shel out for his birthday today to a great restaurant, The Rickhouse, which would have been impossible to find except it was next to the Oscar Getz Museum, which was also impossible to find. The museum had tons of info about bourbon: history, stills, bottles, posters. Earlier we also went to the Civil War Museum which had so many authentic uniforms, guns, pictures, letters, flags, swords. It was awesome and solemn at the same time.