Spring Break - Part 4

Overall, our Spring Break Trip was 4 days in length.  We left on a Sunday morning and arrived back on Wednesday night.  We managed to fit quite a few things in without feeling like we were "going all the time."  Staying in the hotel was fun for kids.  We did an adjoined suite with kids in one room -- the boys shared a bed and the girls shared a bed -- and us in the other.  Each room had its own bathroom and there was a living room and kitchen between them.  

We ate breakfast at the hotel and then lunch was usually something simple (Pizza Hut, Subway) and dinner was a little nicer.  One night, we went bowling and ordered pizza there for the kids.  We knew that we had a long drive ahead of us on Wednesday because we would lose an hour of time due to the change from CST to EST and it often feels like the drive home is longer anyway.  

But first, we wanted to make one last stop before we left Kentucky to visit the National Corvette Museum.  We got there as soon as they opened and spent an hour touring around inside.  

A far away picture, but I couldn't resist capturing the full background:

The boys were more interested in seeing the cars themselves -- the sleekness, the size, there was even a boat! -- while the girls spent a little more time actually reading the history.

This blue car was a favorite, apparently.

And this one too!

Jack's favorite color is orange, so this one caught his eye.

My favorite exhibit was designed around the huge sinkhole that happened 8 years ago.  Multiple corvettes sunk into the ground in the early morning (luckily no one was in the museum) and security cameras caught the action on film.  Eight corvettes fell 30 feet into the ground and it took years to recover them.  Of the eight that fell, three were eventually restored and five of them were left on display in their damaged state.  There is also a 48" manhole that you can stand on and see just how far down the cars sunk into the earth.

It's an amazing story and the amount of people that flocked to the museum after the event was wonderful for the tourism.  

Standing in front of the 1,000,000th corvette made:

This was a beauty:

One last picture before we headed out through the gift shop -- a Corvette boat:

Everyone used the restroom and then we hit the road for our trip back to Michigan.  The kids did great despite the long travel time.  We hit some traffic (two separate semi truck accidents that had the roadways down to one lane), a time change that threw off our mealtime a little bit, some rain showers along the way and some tired/hungry kids once we got home.  But everyone was abuzz with the excitement of the time away and the incredible memories that we made in just those short four days.