Louisville

11^th October - 14^th October

After a long and tiring night catching buses across Ohio, I got into Louisville, Kentucky just in time to get to my hotel, shower and do some laundry before I'd agreed to meet Cynthia. We spent some time wandering around the University of Louisville campus, and I got to see the albino squirrels, which ruled, although I couldn't really get close enough to get a decent picture. We played cards with Cynthia's friends at lunch time, and went to the Speed Museum after that.

Later on, we met up with a couple of Cynthia's friends and went to Bardstown Road to go window shopping. I don't remember much especially interesting happening there. Except for Cynthia telling us that she used to work in Hooters. She's since denied it, though. We went to get some food at Popeye's, and someone cut in front of us at a junction, nearly causing a crash. Matt (who was driving) tooted the horn at him, and that seemed to make him angry. He followed us into the car park, and looked like he was waiting for us to eave the car alone so he could key it, or something. So we went elsewhere; he followed us for a while, but eventually he seemed to get bored, and we went to Subway.

In the evening Cynthia took me back to her house to introduce me to her parents and pets, and we stuck an Animals CD on loop and talked about everything from the difficulties of creating a communist utopia to preferred holiday destinations until about 11 or midnight. Then I was far too tired to stay awake, and I needed to get back to my hotel.

I spent the next day exploring the city. I think the most interesting thing was the Law Courts. So that about sums that up.

In the evening, ang picked me up from the hotel, promising that there was a night club that I absolutely had to go to. On the way, which is pretty much a straight line along one highway, she takes three wrong turnings and we end up in an entire wrong state. Fortunately that only added about 10 minutes onto the total journey time.

When we finally get to Coyote's, it's a country bar. Now, I have nothing against country music per se, but I do find it a little depressing. At least 9 out of every 10 songs they played had as its theme "I'd kill myself, but my girlfriend took the gun when she left". Still, any bar that has a mechanical bull can't be all bad. That picture was taken mere seconds before I fell flat on my head.

The journey back to my hotel was uneventful, except for one little incident of ang forgetting what side of the road we were supposed to be on. I hadn't noticed at all until she shouted "Shit! This isn't a one way street!"

On the Sunday all three of us (Cynthia, ang and I) met up at the Galt House for brunch in the revolving restaurant. After a light meal we wandered along the edge of the Ohio River, and around the general downtown area We popped into the opera house (where people glared at us for daring to wear t-shirts and jeans) to see the unusual works of art.

We dropped by Cynthia's house to get more ideas for what to do, which lead to us going to a local park and climbing on stuff, and trying to fly kites without enough wind. Then we went to Best Buys and played with the computer games, and watched movie trailers, and sat down on big comfy office chairs and chatted about nothing until they kicked us out.

I don't know where we were heading, but we went past a crazy golf course that was about an hour from closing, so we had a round on that. ang kept trying to cheat by adding a stroke on to our scores on every hole. It didn't work though. On the 18^th hole, there was a little chute that the ball escaped down after you potted it. That sucked because they were brightly coloured (blue, red and green), and I wanted to steal mine.

It was dark by this stage, but we didn't let that get in the way of climbing on playground equipment, even if we did have to fight off the teenagers making out. There was some wind by then, too. So we actually managed to make the kites work. I tried to get one to land on the freeway above us, but it didn't happen. I did manage to get completely tangled up in kite string, though.

Then we went for food at a drive through place, only I only had traveller's cheques on me, so I had to get out of the car and up to the window to sign it and show them my passport and stuffs. We ate it back in my hotel room and had a pillow fight, and generally larked about for an hour or two. Then they left and I got some sleep before my flight to Calgary.