By Jennifer Ward-Pelar
My married adult man was deployed to the Middle East final April, as well as I headed abode to Louisville with my 3-year-old child. We lingered 5 magical months. South Florida mightiness hold upwards paradise for a vacation, exactly Louisville is a paradise to live. Most everything was free, traffic wasn’t clogged as well as it wasn’t close equally crowded, no affair what upshot nosotros attended. In Louisville, I felt I spent the summertime inwards paradise, fifty-fifty without a beach.
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My married adult man was deployed to the Middle East final April, as well as I headed abode to Louisville with my 3-year-old child. We lingered 5 magical months. South Florida mightiness hold upwards paradise for a vacation, exactly Louisville is a paradise to live. Most everything was free, traffic wasn’t clogged as well as it wasn’t close equally crowded, no affair what upshot nosotros attended. In Louisville, I felt I spent the summertime inwards paradise, fifty-fifty without a beach.
- My immature lady caught fireflies (instead of mosquitoes) inwards stonemason jars. She launched H2O balloons inwards a spacious backyard, grass beneath her bare feet.
- She attended her outset musical at Floyd Central High School as well as witnessed an authentic, pocket-size town tap-dance number.
- We hiked the total ii miles through the woods to Tioga Falls close Fort Knox as well as constitute out what a tick looks like.
- She stared inwards wonder at the transformation of doughnuts through the Krispy Kreme manufacturing flora window, as well as plucked fresh strawberries inwards the sunny fields of Best Berry Farm inwards Clark County, Indiana.
- She observed the milking of a existent moo-cow at the Kentucky State Fair, as well as belted out hymns inwards her outset opor-garai bible schoolhouse at Valley View Church.
- She baked shrinky-dinks with my sis as well as helped my blood brother launder his semi-truck.
- She greeted her outset officer at the Meet the Police Event sponsored yesteryear Home Depot as well as visited an Amish auction with Equus caballus as well as buggies close Cave City.
- She balanced on the ropes course of instruction at the Louisville Zoo as well as swam at the YMCA Southwest while also attempting, as well as failing, inwards karate class.
- She attended ii Back-to-school fairs as well as ate gratuitous breakfasts at the local Valley High School, which provided meals for children nether xviii years old, all summertime long.
- She spent hours playing at the J.B. Speed Art Museum and stood inwards the pitch night within Mammoth Cave.
- She painted the sidewalk, pinecones, as well as herself with colored chalk.
- She jumped inwards bounce houses, blew bubbles, as well as cooled downwardly inwards the dorsum yard kiddie pool.
- She discovered novel friends inwards the Kentucky Science Center as well as rode a pony at an H2O ice cream social at Riverside Farnsley Landing.
- She leapt through the H2O inwards multiple metropolis splash parks as well as strolled along the Ohio River Front, swinging on the swing sets afterward inhaling fish at Mike Linnig’s Restaurant.
- My three-year-old twirled inwards her outset ballet course of instruction as well as dog-paddled at the Sun Valley Community Center with the next-door neighbor.
- At the Louisville Southwest library branch, she participated inwards a trip the lite fantastic party, a Lego party, a fairy tea party, arts as well as crafts, floor times as well as constructed her ain “car” out of cardboard as well as structure newspaper when the library created a drive-in theatre for the kids. We made total piece of occupation of Louisville library’s cultural direct house through her resident grandma. In the process, nosotros read 500 books, exceeding our goals!
- We browsed through neighborhood yard sales, as well as I picked upwards discounted early on opor-garai presents at Vendor’s Village of Valley Station.
- We breathed gratuitous at the open-air Iroquois Amphitheater inwards Iroquois Park. We savored expensive H2O ice cream at Huber’s kid farm, listened to bi-lingual floor fourth dimension at Iroquois library as well as lost a three-legged race at Grace Crossing church building picnic.
- She had her rattling outset sleepover.
We didn’t frolic at the beach every Friday, exactly nosotros got out of the household every unmarried solar daytime without spending much money. I appreciated non having to struggle traffic or don my huge sunhat as well as long-sleeve shirt to shield from the burning sun. I encountered the well-nigh interesting, form mothers with truly practiced children. Used to the rat race of due south Florida, I was amazed at the manners as well as thoughtfulness of Louisville’s children. It was 1 of the best summers of my life. My lilliputian 1 laughed as well as smiled with joy the entire summer, learning something novel daily with educational, fun experiences. Louisville is an enchanting metropolis for kids! Get out this summertime as well as reckon what y'all tin find!