Four Roses Distillery<\/a> for the “Let’s Talk Bourbon” seminar.\u00a0 (We found the navigation equipment somewhat dicey in Kentucky.)\u00a0 Oddly this was possibly one of my favorite, and cheapest, events of the the festival.\u00a0 Don’t get that combo very often.\u00a0 It was an outdoor event on a fine day, an informative and festive event, pretty much all around fun.\u00a0 We stayed quite a bit past the posted end of the party, until we noticed we were sorta the only people there, so we slunk back to the car and drove off.\u00a0 Next was the Woodford Reserve distillery.\u00a0 That was kinda a non-event, I’d say we were a little disappointed in that one.\u00a0 “Done, check, move on.”\u00a0 We headed back to Bardstown & took a quick nap, then headed out to the big “Cigar & Jazz Festival.”\u00a0 Hopefully you can pretty well put together the content of that evening from the title…\u00a0 Yeah we kinda sat around and, er, smoked cigars and listened to jazz.\u00a0 There ‘ya go.<\/p>\nSaturday, after another fine breakfast, we took another long drive out to Maker’s Mark for a tour.\u00a0 The tour was sort of marginal, but there really wasn’t anything better to do.\u00a0 I’m a fan of the brand so it was interesting to hear all the history and such.\u00a0 Plus we got free ice cream;\u00a0 Can’t go wrong there.\u00a0 After that we went on a failed quest to find President Lincoln’s birthplace, then ate some lunch, then it was time for the coup de gr\u00e2ce of the weekend, (according to Todd,) the “Bourbon Tasting & Gala.”\u00a0 This was a black tie event (strike one) held in a large indoor area (strike two) with 1,200 other people.\u00a0 (Yep that’s three.)\u00a0 Ahhh, it was fun.\u00a0 I guess it was like every other Gala I’ve been too, for that matter.\u00a0 I thought the dinner was very good, and I got a lot of cool swag too.\u00a0 The fact that I was sweating to death in a stupid tuxedo while enjoying these things was certainly unfortunate, but couldn’t be helped.\u00a0 Probably the worst part was that they had the same stinkin’ band from the party we went to the night before, so we had to listen to the same set.\u00a0 It was good the first night, entertaining even;\u00a0 Two nights in a row?\u00a0 Not so much.<\/p>\n
Sunday was spent travelling back home.\u00a0 As mentioned, I got home to a gimpy webserver, so I spent the rest of the day alternating football games & geeking on the pc.\u00a0 About 8:30 the impact of spending three days partying hit me full on, and I wiped out on the couch.\u00a0 DONE.\u00a0 Yes, yes I do have some pictures.\u00a0 In fact, I took a brand new camera just for the event, and I must say I was a little disappointed in the performance of it.\u00a0 Some of the pics I was most looking forward to just didn’t come out.\u00a0 (Like the four of us standing in the back yard of the B&B in our formals while the lady snapped pics like we were heading to our senior prom;\u00a0 All of them are blurry.)\u00a0 So, I’ll pick through what there is and see what can be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I survived my four day weekend with “the boys.”\u00a0 Unfortunately I came back to a severely impaired webserver…\u00a0 It is definitely limping.\u00a0 So, I’m doing the best I can with what I have. Thursday afternoon Martin & I flew out to Louisville, KY to attend the ’09 Bourbon Festival in Bardstown.\u00a0 We met up with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}