An amazing day in Louisville, KY started early.  We explored a little in Jeffersonville, IN, where we are parked and found this court jester bike rack near the post office we were looking for. Jeffersonville has extensive flood gates to protect neighborhoods when the Ohio River breaches its banks.

Then we met some old friends from our travel agency days, Patti and Mike G. at Buckhead Mountain Grill for an early lunch.

Mike is eating a local specialty, Kentucky Hot Brown, which in this case was a special open-faced turkey sandwich with gravy, but can be slightly different at different restaurants.

Outside the restaurant were wonderful views of downtown Louisville and its bridges.

After lunch we went to Falls of the Ohio Interpretive Center which sits above extensive fossil beds. 

You can walk right out on the beds and see every kind of ocean fossil.  No collecting allowed, though.  These are within view of downtown Louisville.

Later Mike and Patti took us downtown and we visited the Museum of Arts and Crafts.  This was my favorite exhibit there.

Louisville is known for the Louisville Slugger and there is a museum dedicated to it with a giant baseball bat outside which can be seen on the skyline.

From the Museum we crossed the street to the amazing 21C Museum Hotel. From the giant sized copy of the David outside,

to the inspired work of Al Farrow, which was entirely made of bullets and gun parts in a protest of violence,

 to the selfie wall which showed every passer-by,

 to the video taped images of eyeballs in the ladies room mirror, the art and experience were amusing and overwhelming.

 This is a view out of a window at 3 smoke machines blowing smoke rings.

 The above are two views of the outside of the hotel with its iconic red penguins on the roof and front.

Last, but certainly not least, we met Bernie and Eileen S., some other dear friends from the Travel Professionals International travel agency days at The Mayan Cafe for an extraordinary dinner of Mayan food and some of the best company anywhere.  Thanks to all for a fantastic day.