Daily Archives: July 1, 2023

The travels continue, friends…

Today I woke up in Georgetown, KY. Why, you ask, in this small town? Well, the tart Taylor Swift had a lot to do with that. You see, we were going to stay in Cincinnati last night, having met with some employees there for dinner. However due to the twit pop star staging some kind of writhing revival at the Bengals sportsball stadium, every hotel room in town and for thirty miles out was booked. So we stayed in Georgetown. Familiar Georgetown.

This hamlet lies 45 miles south along I-75 from Cincy. It is familiar to us because we stayed here thirteen months ago on another road trip. In fact, our hotel this time is literally next door to that from last year. We settled in for the night and went to sleep (after a few gin and tonics).

This morning we attended Holy Mass at St. Francis DeSales Mission. The weather was stormy. It rained a fair bit. This church, in the bluegrass countryside about fifteen minutes outside town, is, I believe, a Novus Ordo parish where the FSSP also celebrate Mass. See picture below.

I am happy to report that the church looked twice as full as it did a year ago. Fwincisss Effect. Our morning sacrifice ended, we puttered around. Did some laundry. Got some lunch. And then we headed to the Ark.

The Ark Experience, as it is officially known, is a supposedly to-scale re-creation of. Noah’s Ark. except that Noah didn’t charge damn near $300 for five people to enter and $15 for parking. I went mainly to see the engineering of the structure and I will tell you that it does not disappoint from that angle. Just be advised that the entire “museum” of the Ark is curated by fundamentalist Protestants and is almost entirely wrong. Oh well, you live and learn.

I saw the above image and my wife said, “Come on, people. June is over!” Remember that Satan inverts everything.

Also, I was surprised at how many dinosaurs Noah brought onto the Ark considering that dinosaurs didn’t exist. Don’t @ me.

Next up, St. Louis and the most beautiful parish church in all of the former United States.

St. Francis DeSales, pray for us!