2011

Today, we got back from Louisville, where we spent New Year’s Eve celebrating with friends we do not see very often.  The idea of spending New Year’s Eve in Louisville was originally brought up by Mike, and we pounced on it with an appropriate amount of enthusiasm.

I would like to hit some of the highlights of the trip, and not go into too much detail about anything else, if you don’t mind.  I’m not feeling very bloggy right now.  It will probably end up being a long one, anyway, so prepare yourself.

We all rode down together:  Mike drove his minivan, and upon his arrival in Lafayette he had already in his possession (for at least an hour) Joe, Matt, Lauren, and Katie.  We loaded up and pressed on. 

We spent the majority of the three hour drive from Lafayette to Louisville playing games, as most people are wont to do on road trips.  Maybe that would be a good topic for another blog post – games we play on road trips.  We will see.

When we arrived in Louisville, we headed straight for Andrew and Kyle’s apartment.  Andrew and Kyle are the very good friends of ours who we don’t get to see very often, so this was sort of a special occasion.  Also in attendance was Alex, who Mary and I haven’t really seen since we bumped into him at a mutual friend’s wedding.  He’s pretty great.  Also also in attendance were several of Kyle’s friends from Purdue, the names of whom I can not remember excepting someone possibly named Morgan.

Anyway, the first thing we did was to go eat KFC at Col. Sander’s grave.  I don’t really think I need to explain why.  It went well.

Having paid respects to a founder of widespread mainstream delicious fried food, we headed back to A&K’s place to put on our fancy clothes and work our way through an $80 bottle of beer.

Appropriately fancied, we headed off around 9:00.  Our destination was The Spirit of Jefferson, a river steamboat on which we would spend New Year’s Eve.  And we got there!  I did not take many pictures, since my phone does not have a flash, but we had a pretty good time. 

The view was great from the top of the boat, the food was delicious, and the weather was perfect – except for a bit of rain right around midnight.  But I can think of no other group of people who I would rather stand out in the rain to count down the new year with.

And in the morning we had mimosas with homemade macaroni & cheese.  Delicious.

 

*And to anyone who was with us that night who does not appear in this post, I am sorry for not taking a picture of you.  I’m sure you’re on Facebook somewhere.