Traveling with the Schroeders -- The Ark Encounter

 Last week, we enjoyed our "weekend" which took place on a Wednesday evening -Friday.  We drove down to Kentucky and camped at Big Bone Lick State Park, just south of Cincinnati.  From there, we made two stops which had eluded us on last year's vacation.

On Thursday, we drove down to Hodgenville, KY to visit the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace.  The main feature here is a Lincoln Memorial inside of which sits a model of the log cabin he was born in.  In addition to that, we visited an Abraham Lincoln museum in downtown Hodgenville.  There were about a dozen dioramas of Lincoln's life as well as many other Lincoln memorabilia.  Finally, there was a boyhood home of Lincoln just north of Hodgenville.  We drove past it, but it is closed until 2021 for renovations.  Since the parking lot was barricaded, we only saw it at 55 mph.

On Friday, we drove down to Williamstown, KY to see The Ark Encounter, which is a part of the Creation Museum but about 45 minutes away from that campus.  The structure was mammoth with many displays inside of it.  They did a good job of depicting the Biblical account, focused on people's need for Jesus, and were honest when they offered up theories for how Noah and his family lived and labored on the ark.  Many of the theories are conjecture since those details were not recorded in the Bible.  But they noted that whatever theories they suggested would not have been opposed to the history of Noah's day (e.g., there was no cable TV on the ark) or the Bible.  All the displays were very well done and they gave us much to read and to consider.  We spent eight hours there including visiting their zoo and eating in the restaurant (get the pot roast).

Here are some photos from that trip.