Weekend Visitor!

This weekend my sister came to town! I was so excited to finally have something to do on a weekend. (Matt only has 1 weekend off a month, so it makes for a long weekend when no one is around)  :)  She's never been to Lexington so I tried to hit the spots I knew people normally go to.  Of course, everything here is horse related, so it could get kinda boring if you're not into the thoroughbred racing.  But either way we had a blast!  Here are some of the things we did....

Keeneland:  This is the race track located next to our house.  It only holds races twice a year, but they also have a lot of horse sales and such going on.  If you want to spend a couple hundrend thousand dollars on a horse, it's the place to be!  We were there early enough to watch them train the horses... they were just going too fast to get a good picture of....

Lexington Farmers Market:  Every Saturday from Memorial Day Weekend thru Labor Day Weekend downtown Lexington has a Farmer's Market.  It's so fun!  It's small, but you can taste test things, listen to street performers and more importantly for us.... get Crepes!  I have loved Crepes ever since we went to Paris about 5 years ago...  They are super thin pancakes filled with whatever you want.  We bought this to split.... we put Nutella and bananas in it... VERY DELICIOUS! 

Kentucky Horse Park:  This is a huge park where they have different horse shows.  This particular weekend they had a Reining Show going on that we had friends riding in.  I didn't even think to take a picture as he was riding, sorry (told you I'm getting used to this blog thing)...  but we did go up to see him show.  Matt happened to be off this weekend and was up there most of Saturday helping them out.  It worked out pretty well because he was able to get some business out of it!  Several people needed a vet- IMMEDIATELY- (or so they always think).  He was there to treat their horses and several people in Lexington now want him to begin working on their farms.  Yea!



 The rest of the day Saturday was spent seeing a movie (Crazy, Stupid, Love- I don't recommend it), showing her around the farm, relaxing at home and going to bed so we could go to church the next morning.  Sunday, we were able to go to a church that I have tried once.  I was hoping their pastor would be back in town, but he was still out and his son filled in.  I still like the church and Matt likes the fact that it has a Sunday night and Wednesday night service... that gives us more options since Sunday mornings are typically out for him.  We'll probably go back and try an evening service next weekend.  This was us before church... again... these pictures are not great for a number of reasons, but oh well.   

After church we went to Panera Bread and then Cass headed back to St. Louis.  It was  fun weekend and so far, her being just 5 hrs away is the only plus to living in Kentucky!  Thanks for coming it was great to have you!