Friday, August 12, 2016

Louiusville NSRA 4th - 6th August 2016

We are up early to meet our friends at their hotel by 8am before we all head down to the car show.  They have a 3 bedroom apartment and have offered us the spare room for a couple of nights, which we gratefully accept.





The view from the Galt Hotel in downtown Louisville over the Ohio River separating Indiana and Kentucky.

We all pile in & head to the show which is huge, so big that you end up not taking the cars in as there is too many to look at.   I am not going to put tonnes of car photos on here - but here is a few pics from our three days at the show where we catch up with quite a few Kiwis......






A nice 40 and a cool set up, especially for the heat here, for this 48 Ford.





Danny, Jadzia, Robyn, Mark, Jimmy, Kerry & me.


A couple more cars.....










Thomas's (our Grandson) favourite is the ice cream truck!





Daryl checking out the camping chairs on day 2 - these ones rocked and were really quite nice but didn't fold down much so too bulky, they stayed there.




 A barge going out full of petroleum.



The local paddle steamer which had a steam organ piping music - my bonny lies over the sea & puff the magic dragon but you can only stand so much!
  The 60's Club:  Danny, Daryl & Mark.
 Day 3 - we return on our own and met up this bunch...  Kerry & Jimmy Keeys, Daryl & I, Paul Davidson (Weasel), Noddy, Sparrow & Scooter (Lance & Clinton Sanford) of Kiwis.

Nice to catch up and have a yarn together.
Day one we went to a BBQ Smokehouse called Smoketown USA, which turned out to be a fantastic choice - a tip a taxi driver had given Mark that we would never have found as in a outlying neighbourhood.  Great food and great company plus the staff were a lot of fun.  Day 2, we went to a local restaurant and then had to bribe our way into 4th street which was blocked off for a concert as we wanted to get a Hard Rock guitar - we managed to sweet-talk our way in.

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