Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Bourbon and Thunderstorms

Hey Y'all,


We had our typical morning with grabbing breakfast at the campus and then heading over to the Child Development Lab for some screenings.

After screening children, Melissa Rediford, who has been working very closely with us for the past week and a half at the Berea College Child Development Lab suggested an Italian restaurant, Johnny Carino's Italian.  It was similar to an Olive Garden, but we all agreed it had better food than Olive Garden.


Johnny Carino's Italian was the half way point on our adventure to the Buffalo Trace Distiller in Frankfort, Kentucky.


There we toured the distillery and saw how bourbon was made and the history of the drink.



As well as getting to go into a couple of warehouses, where the bourbon was being housed to age in large barrels.

Haley Armstrong playing between the rows of barrels full of bourbon
Hailey Haigh also playing around in between the row of barrels of bourbon
At the end of the tour there was tasting of the bourbon.


However, only for one person, Hailey Haigh, who is over the age of 21 go to try a couple of the real bourbons.  While the rest of us tried the root beer.

Once we returned from the distillery tour and before we headed out to dinner, we had some downtime, which was when we had some thunderstorms with rain and wind.

After the storm passed we headed over to Papaleno's for some sandwiches, pizza, and chicken to end our night.
Haley Armstron aka mini Dr. Ted Johnson

Tomorrow we are finishing up most of our screenings over at the Child Development Lab and enjoying our last couple of days in the wonderful town of Berea and state of Kentucky.

-Jillian Colon

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