Vacation September 2011 - Newport KY

After leaving The Underground Railroad Museum Freedom Center we drove across the bridge to Newport KY. First stop was to see The World Peace Bell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Peace_Bell I was disappointed that the building is no longer ran by the peace bell people and they did not allow us to go up in the building to where we could see the bell better nor would they ring it. After that we walked around a place called The Levee that was supposed to be shopping but in reality was more like places to eat, a movie theater and a bowling alley so we found a coffee shop and rested. Luckily we decided to allow ourselves thirty minutes to find the riverboat dock. http://bbriverboats.com/ According to my google directions it was only two miles from where we left the car in the public parking lot next to the World Peace Bell. Hummmmmm. It took us thirty minutes to find the dock. While we were not in danger of missing the boat we were able to board as soon as we got there. We did not have to wait. I am not sure if it was the fact that anything would be anticlimactic after the Freedom Center or if we were just tired but Newport Ky did not impress me. The riverboat cruise was not at all like the cruise I took up north in Michigan through the Locks. There there was a guide who told us what we were seeing. Also on the Chicago Riverboat Ride I took there was a guide explaining every thing. On the Newport riverboat cruise there was not guide making announcements about what we were passing. Also on the Locks tour they served us our meal while on the Ohio River one it was a buffet. We arrived back in our rooms at the lodge Tuesday night about 12:30 am (Wednesday morning) after getting lost in Cincinnati on the way home a few times. During the drive home we decided that Wednesday was going to be a day that was starting later and ending earlier.