Louisville Slugger and Churchill Downs

Louisville is the home of the Louisville Slugger baseball bat, the best bat in the world. The company has been a fixture for more than 100 years. http://www.slugger.com/Churchill Downs is the racetrack that hosts the Kentucky Derby, a grand tradition every May, and is often enhanced by a race between the two most famous paddlewheel steamboats, the Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen.

Belle of Louisville

This is one of the best events on this trip. Louisville's done a great job on the waterfront, and the paddlewheel steamboat is the oldest one still in use. We were really propelled by the paddle. Very cool.