Heading to Louisville for Visit

First of all, we finally received our final paychecks from Grey's Point Camp in VA - 34 days after our final day of work. As noted previously, we filed a complaint with the VA Dept of Labor & Industries about their payroll practices, which violate the state law. There was one change in our planned deposit of those paychecks. Instead of sending them to the "overnight deposit" address at Bank of America in Phoenix AZ, we deposited them in our other bank account that we rarely use at US Bank here in KY. That account was opened in WY while working there last year. That is another state that has no B of A bank branches, and we opened it for convenience. Fortunately, almost all of our banking activity is automatic through B of A, including deposits and bill paying, which means that we can be anywhere and it doesn't impact the timing.

Our trip is planned for today. We will visit the Kentucky Derby Museum where we will meet up with a group of people to take a 1 1/2 hour walking tour of Churchill Downs at 2 PM. You must have reservations for this tour, and the only slot open was the 2 PM tour. We will see the museum prior to the tour which means we should arrive there around 12 noon in order to see everything. Following our visit there, we will go to Costco in Louisville - the nearest one to us - and get some much needed supplies and items that are unique to Costco that we use. Then, we will remain in Louisville and have dinner at Puccini's where we ate last year with our friends and enjoyed very much.

The day should be fun, and we hope to get lots of pictures at Churchill Downs. It's a shame that there won't be any racing there, but it could make the tour more enjoyable without racing distractions and crowds. We'll find out.

We feel up to the task today and are moving around with little physical carryover from our long work week. It looks like a clear day for a change. Until tomorrow...