In Kentucky we went to a most puzzling place. Kentucky was a great state. We went to one of my favorite restaurants, Puzzle Fun Dome, and the Kentucky Derby Museum.
One of my top restaurants is a fast food chain, and that chain is Culver's. Yes, Culver's is a top restaurant, and not just because of the ice cream. No, they know how to make some good burgers. Unlike McDonald's or Burger King, Culver's has a good balance of flavor. The bun to meat ratio is perfect. Then you throw some ketchup, mustard, pickles, and onions on, and you have an awesome burger.
However recently Culver's has decided to go crazy and put the ingredients on the bottom of the burger, instead of the top. This throws off the whole taste because if it's on top then you taste a perfect mix of burger and ingredients. If the ingredients are on the bottom, then the ingredients overtake the meat, and you just taste ingredients. If you get past that matter though, it's a great place. I especially like how they have an ice cream flavor of the day. My favorite flavor is Boston Cream Pie.
Puzzle Fun Dome has nothing to do with puzzles; however, it has a bunch to do with fun. Puzzle Fun Dome has a nine hole indoor mini golf, some inflatables, a movie theater, a rock wall, glow in the dark basketball, mini bowling, and arcade games. Chloe and I spent most of our time playing on their awesome inflatables. My favorite one was a regular jump house without the net. Then you add two sticks with cushions on the ends instead of weights. You would swing your "weight" at the other person and try to knock him or her off a cylinder. I had so much fun whacking Chloe off of the cylinder. They also had a large slide and an obstacle course jump house. The nine hole mini golf course was really lame, though, compared to all the other activities. One hole was being fixed, and the whole course needed repair. The rock climbing and glow in the dark basketball were fun though.
The Kentucky Derby Museum is the number one hands-on museum on the trip. They had two amazing hands-on exhibits there. The first one was betting stations. You pick which horses you thought would get first, second, and third. Then you receive your ticket and watch a video of the horse race. If you picked one of the horses right, the TV would show you how much money you would have won. I could have spent hours playing that, but unfortunately they had the videos on a cycle, so you watched about seven videos, then they repeated. Their second amazing hands on activity was horse racing. They had a plastic horse with a TV screen in front of it. You had three buttons. One made the horse move right, another made the horse move left, and another made the horse go faster. Because of that button, I won almost every time.
Kentucky was a blast. We experienced Culver's, derbys, and domes (oh my!) It still puzzles me though, how I lost that last race.
-The Son
