A Long Weekend

We're off on a short summer vacation today, coming back on Monday.  First we'll head two hours south to Owensboro, Kentucky, for the Romp bluegrass music festival.  Our favourite band, Old Crow Medicine Show is headlining on Saturday night.  There are some other goodies in store too, including The Punch Brothers.  It is my dream to see as much bluegrass as possible while living in the midwest.  Nashville, TN, at spring break was a good start.  

On Sunday morning we'll drive three hours directly east and stay a night at a fancy hotel - Boone Tavern Hotel.  We're not normally hotel dwellers, in fact, we haven't stayed in one since our honeymoon.  We found an excellent coupon on travelzoo.com which gives us a night, wine tasting at a vineyard, some credit at the restaurant, pastries in our room, and terry cloth robes.  

The Owensboro weather report is promising three days at 100 degrees Fahrenheit (that's 38 degrees Celsius).  We're praying for rain but have also frozen 8 litres* of water to put in our chilli bin*.  It's all our small freezer could hold.  We also plan on buying lots of ice blocks.  We are so grateful to friends who have lent us camping equipment, and a car.

We booked the tickets and hotel room such a long time ago, I cannot believe the we are leaving today! I don't know which I'm more excited about:  Camping at the festival and the subsequent overload of bluegrass, or the night at the hotel.  

*4 gallons
*cooler