Jim and Melissa's Most Excellent Day Trip To Elizabethtown

Melissa and I took Friday off.  We decided to take a day trip somewhere.  It was raining and the whole state of Kentucky looked as if it was going to be raining all day so we decided to plan something indoors.  Looking at the Kentucky travel site, we ended up choosing to go to Elizabethtown and seeing 1776.  1776 is a musical being put on by the local community theater group.  We headed out about noon and we knew we could take a leisurely trip down to E-town.  In the mornings paper we read about Wallace Station in Midway (which is on the way).  Wallace Station sounded like a pretty decent place to get something to eat.  So we stopped on the way.  Wallace Station is out in the country and off the beaten path.

Once we were inside, the place was PACKED!  Always a good sign for a place to eat.

The food was KILLER.  This is an awesome place to eat!  If you are ever near Midway, eat at Wallace Station (it is a can’t miss) and get a Santa Anita!  We actually got two different ones, the Santa Anita and the Mulberry meets Midway.  Both were great, but the Santa Anita is killer!

My poor over exposed picture doesn’t do the sandwich justice.  The Santa Anita is the near (over exposed) one.

On the way we got off the express way to check out Bardstown.  Bardstown is very interesting and I suspect we will make a day trip to Bardstown in the future.  While at Bardstown Melissa and I got a snack at BR31.

Even with our leisurely pace we made it to Elizabethtown in with plenty of time to spare.  We stopped by the tourism office to see how we could kill some time.  We contemplated seeing the movie Elizabethtown in Elizabethtown (how cool would that be?) but decided against it.   So we killed some time in Best Buy, Barnes and Nobles, and Michael’s Crafts.

Then we had a most excellent dinner at Tumbleweed.

After dinner we saw an excellent show.  1776 was in the Performing Arts Center which is attached to Hardin County High School.  It is an amazing venue and it will be wonderful when Scott County gets something of this magnitude. Here are some pictures from the show.

The show was out a little after 10pm and Melissa and I were home by midnight.  We even had time to stop at A&W for a root beer float.  This was one of the best day trips we have ever taken.  Then again, I always say that after our day trips so we must be getting better at it!