Recently I shared our family of nine's trip to the Creation Museum in Kentucky and this week I want to share not only our experience at the Ark Encounter but also some incredible places that we visited in the area. If you're visiting either the museum or the ark, you really must also stop by these places!
We've heard so many great things about the Ark Encounter over the years and I'm so grateful that our family had a chance to see it in person. And wow, seeing it personally is truly a must in order to fully grasp the enormity of the biblical account of the Ark.
I'll share from the very beginning how things went so that if you're also traveling with little ones you'll know what to expect but first I'll share a little story that could have ended in a not so great way! 😮
Since the place we were staying at, Haymark Farms (which we HIGHLY recommend) is about 1 1/2 hours from both the museum and the ark, we made sandwiches the night before to eat on the way. Unfortunately, one of our littles one did not like his sandwich at all (I didn't either to be honest ha ha!) so he was saying that he didn't want to eat it. I remember thinking when we got there that he should just give it to my husband to eat but I forgot. And turns out, my 3 year old didn't eat his either. Once we got inside the first main building we needed to buy some extra food anyways like fruit so they ended up being set when it was all said and done. That is not the end of the story but I'll save that ending for later in the post. 😬