TWB June 15th 2019 Experience: Day 22- Kentucky

Day 22- Kentucky

Hey everyone! It’s the Grumpys again reporting on today’s fantastic adventures. We were woken up by our counselors’ energetic yelling at the early time of 5:45. After rushing to get ready, we loaded up the vehicles for another long day of driving. The Sneezys served us a filling breakfast of a croissant paired with an orange. After breakfast, sleeping for the day was over because we had to focus on our last full day together. The bus ride consisted of heartfelt conversations between friends and loud country music. After a couple of hours of driving, we finally arrived at the Churchill Downs around noon.

As a group we were given a short tour of Churchill Downs and were shown where the racer horses are housed before their race as well as the race track itself. We also had the privilege of a clear view of the beautiful Kentucky Derby winner’s circle. Following the tour, we were escorted into the great hall for a viewing of a short film titled “The Greatest Race” in which we learned all about the history of the Kentucky Derby. While we were at Churchill Downs, we met Craig’s family. Craig’s wife made 180 peanut butter chocolate chip cookies before coming to see us. That must’ve taken so much time! The cookies, which we each got at least two of, were very good. Thank you Mrs. Ragole!

Once we left the Kentucky Derby, Craig drove us to a bus wash so that our bus and vans could look presentable tomorrow for the reunion with our families (and also so they’d be clean for the third and fourth trips). While waiting for the bus and vans to be cleaned, we were given time to work on our final competition with our groups. This competition challenged us to come up with a fun way to present our view on the last three weeks. As you can imagine, this included a lot of roasts and jokes from throughout the course of our 23 days together.

For dinner, we were provided with a catered dinner at the original KFC. This consisted of friend chicken (obviously), mashed potatoes and gravy, mac and cheese, green beans, and a biscuit. Fantastic, warm dinner! A lot of campers bought the original KFC shirts so we were seeing a lot of twinning last night as people put on their new shirts. Once we were done with dinner, we drove to our campsite which was only about twenty minutes away.

Once at our campsite, our final competition took place. Although all groups put together a fairly funny presentation, the Happy group was announced the winners of the competition while the Dopeys were given the Overall Best Cooks award. To complete our night together, we had a quick sing along before separating to go to the showers. However, the girls quickly learned that our bathroom was flooded so there were no showers for the girls last night. Our showers at home tonight will just feel even better after two days of not showering. For our last night together, lots of people are talking about pulling all-nighters. We’ll see how long people last before sleep finally takes over. We’re all excited to see our blog viewers tomorrow evening at Mallard Creek! Grumpys out.