April 12, 2008
Thunder Over Louisville
Looking down the fairway to the 2nd tee. This is the view off my balcony... The large white building in the distance is the Ford Truck plant. Legends at Indian Springs Louisville KY
One of the things that I have loved about our traveling here in the US is discovering wonderful local events that nobody seems to have ever heard about. We all know about the Kentucky Derby, America's Greatest Horse Race, and its sister race for the Sistah's the Kentucky Oaks, held a day apart the first saturday and friday of May respectively. There is plenty of pageantry to go around right? A week of parties and dances, BBQ's and parades all the proceeds going to various charity venues....
Did I say a week???? Try a month...yes a
whole month of Carnival featuring Airshows, Balloon racing, a world class Marathon, Musical events with both Rock and Country stars arriving to do concerts some on schedule others just "showing up" to jam at a Charity event. As I read about the various events in the paper I am curising this flu bug that has had me in a vise like grip for nearly three weeks and is worsening. I would have loved to have gone to the airshow today.
Called Thunder Over Louisville, the Airshow is combined with the largest Pyrotechnical display in America. Using a bridge that spans the Ohio River as it launching pad, thousands of rockets are fired off in an amazing display. I watched on my TV and it was amazing. They also had barges with different dysplays on them and everytime the "theme" changed there was the firing of 50 howitzers brought in from Ft. Knox. I am sure that there is film of this on YouTube and if I can link it up I will
My personal Thunder over Louisville is my horrendous cough, that was so violent that I blacked out this afternoon and fell out of a chair. Annabelle got out of the way, and woke me by licking my face. At that point I surrendered and got dressed and went to a local Urgent Care. Closed for you guessed it... everyone was at the riverfront... so it will be my first stop tomorrow which means I will be forgoing church, just as well.
The cough has me worried. I do not have an infection there is no sign of that but rather a huge over abundance of mucus of an egg white consitancy. Allergy and very bad too. I am convinced it the shop, with the chemicals the particulates from polishing and the smoking of nearly everyone there. Mucinex is not touching this, so I am trying to remain as quiet as I can, and perhaps tomorrow get some relief...I am afraid this will mean steriods but I am willing to do what I have to do to learn this trade. Charlie is a genious, and I can learn a lot from him if I can get over this and hold up. He feels that I am doing well and that with time and health (how much attention can you pay if you are dropping off from being OD on cough meds...last thursday I was sent home for fear that I wouldnt make it home, and stayed home on friday) I will be really good because I care about what I do... that has to make a difference.
Annabelle is in her bed, the booming has finally stopped and she is at peace. It is tempting to take her to be with me but she wont be able to do that once we get home so its into her crate for the night. She loved taking her nap with me today as we watched the airplaines from the airshow fly about. It was pretty amazing and perhaps I will get back here at another time to see this event again
Thunder over Louisville The reminants of a very bad storm that did a lot of damage in the area
Labels: Annabelle, Conner School, Health, Kentucky, Louisville
