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Red Hat Society Joins City Taste Tour for Louisville Tour!

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:15:00 GMT

Ahhh. Sunday. We run our Louisville city tour 6 days a week. Sunday is reserved for laundry, loving on my sweet pets… and sleeping in. The day of rest.

Yesterday was a wonderful, yet very long day. We started the city tours at 9am with a group of 12. A local couple had called us to arrange a city tour because they had family coming in to town. Although it was basically our regular city tour, they requested a little customizing that of course we were happy to do.

One of the special stops was to see The Home of the Innocents bronze monument in Cave Hill Cemetery. The story of Sister Emily Cooper and the 77 children buried in Cave Hill Cemetery is something definitely worth knowing. Here is a link to a newsletter from the Cave Hill Heritage Foundation. The article about Sister Emily Cooper is on page three… but make sure to read the one about Louisville giant Jim Porter, you’ll be interested in that one too.

http://www.cavehillcemetery.com/gallery/CAVE_HILL_HERITAGE_FOUNDATION_NEWSLETTER-_MAY_2009.pdf.

Our second tour was a group from The Red Hat Society. Yes, City Taste Tours finally had Red Hats aboard! I just love the whole concept of The Red Hats. “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, with a red hat that doesn’t go and doesn’t suit me.” I have been fascinated by the Red Hats for years now… I see them everywhere.

Maybe my fascination comes from my quick approach of the 50 year mark. I am yet 45 at present though, and had thought I could not be a red hotty for five more years. One of the wonderful women on our city tour yesterday informed me that I could be a pink hat… so you never know.

Here is the link to Wikipedia’s explanation of The Red Hat Society, in case you have seen these fabulous purple and red clad ladies somewhere and have wondered who they are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Society

Ladies… you were the highlight of our day! We hope to have many more Red Hats on our tours of Louisville. City Taste Tours loves you!

Our final tour of the day ended up being a smaller group of guests for our Louisville Foodie tour. You still get history and fun stories about Louisville, but the tastes along the way are far hardier… and in addition to the tastes, you will be sitting down at local venues and having meals at three very different places. It is a dinner tour and you will be stuffed by the end.

After such a long day the smaller group was actually very nice. We had a woman from Colorado who had a business doing the nutritional labels for foods (cool!) and a couple from Kansas, though he was originally from South Africa. (I knew that was not a Kansas accent.)

What is neat about all of our tours, is that the bus gets filled with a variety of people from different cultures, experiences, states, countries, and reasons that they are in our great town of Louisville… and within ten minutes, they are all bonded, chatting and sharing this fun experience.

When we dropped off the guests late last night, I was sad to see them go. Even after 13 hours of giving city tours of Louisville, there was a little melancholy that the tours were at an end.

Monday morning though it all begins again, and I will share with you the many wonderful people that come our way, hop onboard the City Taste Tours shuttle and head out to hear the fun stories, see the great sights, and taste the fabulous foods that gives Louisville it’s unique flavor.

As I ponder now the pile of laundry that awaits me in the other room I wonder, maybe we should do city tours seven days a week. Hmm??

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Louisville City Tours To Remember

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:17:00 GMT

We picked up our guests for our Louisville City Tour at 10am this morning. In addition to other wonderful states, we had guest from both coasts; Key West, Florida and somewhere beautiful I’m sure, California. There’s a little extra excitement in the air today due to the upcoming opening of the fabulous YUM! Center.

The guests are always so impressed with the massive size and all the glass. The fountains popped on for a brief moment today… there was a little cheer from the tourists on the bus. I cheered along with them. I’ve been watching the progress of this incredible building since it was only a big hole in the ground, and I’m surprised at how emotional I feel now that she’s almost finished. The official ribbon cutting ceremony is this Sunday, and although I really am not a ribbon cutting kind of person… I will be standing out there in the crowd, and waiting in line to take my tour of the interior.

Surprising and Fun Louisville City Tours!

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:48:00 GMT

Oh what fun and interesting things happen along a Louisville City Tour! I am often amazed at just what I see through the windshield of our tour bus as I drive tourists and locals alike through this never boring, and surprising town.

Eli gives the official tour in the back with our guests… and I drive the bus. Though that’s not to say I don’t pipe up now and again. Just today as we were traveling through Old Louisville and Eli was telling our city tour about Louisville’s fascinating history, I was at the wheel smiling in amazement as I wait for four pugs, all dressed in pink, lace, and frills to carefully cross at the light. That was just Old Louisville. You can imagine what I saw in the Highlands.

As we drove down Bardstown Road, telling our guests all about the trolleys of the olden days and the wonderful restaurants of today, I watch a man dressed as a zombie, with one big monster claw on his left hand, casually cruise past Days Coffee whistling a tune. No, it wasn’t Zombie Night (and yes, Louisville has one of those), just one of the interesting characters that grace the fascinating Highland area of Louisville.

Eli and I run city tours of Louisville six days per week. We tell our guests that City Taste Tours was started by two women who got real creative in a bad economy…. And it’s true. So although it was initially begun as an attempt to pay the bills, it is now run by two women who can’t believe how lucky they are to be able to experience Louisville on a daily basis. No day feels like work. Each day feels like showing off Louisville to brand new friends.

I tease on tour that I drive in circles for a living. Although we do pretty much drive the same route daily; Downtown to Old Louisville to Germantown to the Highlands thru Cave Hill Cemetery down through Phoenix and Irish Hill across the river to the falls etcetera, etcetera, eating and tasting along the way, it never gets boring and no day is the same. Each day holds new surprises along the tour that our guests on the bus may or not be privy to. Though I admit I usually point them out.

So Louisville, keep surprising me along the way… and keep being a city full of boldness, eccentricities, rare and weird occurrences, and pugs in pink. That’s actually one of the main reason you are so fun to show off!

Louisville… City Taste Tours loves you!

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"Best Tour of Louisville"- Thank You Guests For All Your Wonderful Reviews

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:22:00 GMT

It isn't very often that we have a chance to sit back and see what comes up in the search results when you type in "City Taste Tours of Louisville" in a large search engine, but this morning we thought it might be fun. We had no idea that the amount of such wonderful and kind compliments existed out there....and on so many different websites!