August 13. Do you know why Friday the 13th is unlucky?

Today was filled with Bourbon. Lots of Kentucky Bourbon. I now only need one more distillery stamp in order to complete my Kentucky Bourbon Passport. When did these passport things become popular? National Parks, Nebraska, and Kentucky have them. Our Bourbon tour began only after a quick stop at My Old Kentucky Home. The actual home that inspired the state song written by someone not from Kentucky. We passes on the tour in order to have a day filled with bourbon before Micki needed to be back

First was Heaven Hill which surprised us due to its location. This is where the Bourbon Trail Center is and it had a GREAT tasting. Not that Bourbon tastes great, it was just set up very cool. The tour guide was informative too. After the over hour long tour we decided in order to finish all the distillers on our passport we would have to skip out of some tours. After a few the smell was getting to me so I was very okay with that.

Our next distillery was right down the road at Makers Mark. Upon pulling into the driveway saw what looked to be a tour of 30 people or more. Not wanting to be in such a large group we headed to the gift shop, saw where you can dip your own bottle and walked around to a very antique fire truck in a barn. Once in the car I gave a three accent “tour” based on the brochure as we played chicken with a tractor and mail jeep on a one lane road.

Our next stop was the gorgeous Spanish style architecture compound of Four Roses. After a very scientific bourbon video it was time to get some food. This place was beautiful and random and would make a good wedding spot. It was also Japanese owned which was strange. Heaven Hill was the only family owned and Makers Mark was the newest.

We dined in the town of Lawrenceburg at Heavens To Betsy. We had very delicious sandwiches and brownie. It was some very good food on stomachs very much needing food. Not much going on in the town except this and a few nice Victorian style homes.

Our last distillery of the day was none other than Wild Turkey. One of two out of 20 distilleries in KY I have heard of. After a very exciting ride on a bourbon barrel rocking turkey we headed in for our last tastings of the day. The tasting was as delicious as a bourbon tasting can be and the place had a unique feel to it. Wild Turkey was the Good Ole Boy’s of distilleries in KY. It had a rustic, country farm feel to it and I liked that. It’s also interesting to note that at most of these tastings you get to sample the expensive stuff, and minus Woodford the tours are free.

After some internet time and dinner on my own I headed back downtown to see Shrek Ever After in theaters for TWO DOLLARS. I loved this movie theater. The eight theater movie theater has movies that are just dropped from main theaters for $1.50 during the day, $2.00 at night and $0.75 on Monday. I would consider living in Lexington just for this.