Since last year my mom had been talking about wanting to go to Kentucky to visit the replica of Noah's Ark. We were finally able to make that a reality during Spring Break, and I organized the trip and booked our hotel. The trip was fairly quick, we left on Easter around 11am and got back Wednesday evening. For our Easter supper we had Dairy Queen, but we were able to eat it outside due to the great weather.
We arrived at our hotel at 7pm on Easter, and I was excited to note that they actually had the pool open. When I was originally booking the hotel back in February they had said the pool/hot tub would be closed due to Covid. We never utilized either, but it was great to know. The hotel I picked was actually the perfect spot between the two attractions being the ark replica and the creation museum, which are apart of the same organization. The hotel was also clean, and offered free breakfast, so there isn't anything bad to say about it, thankfully.
On Monday we went to the ark replica, built following the directions given to Noah by God in "The Bible" Since we no longer use the measurement of cubits to build things, the researchers tried the best they could to make the best representation of what they thought it would mean (look like). A lot of research went into this project as a whole in order to best answer commonly asked questions on the ark and to build exhibits. The ark was also part museum so it did contain some exhibits and painted a story of life on the ark. This included the living quarters of Noah and his family, and cages with animals that are now extinct that may have been on the ark. For me I took pictures of things that answered questions I never really thought of. Like: How big is a cubit? How did they feed the animals? How many animals did they have to take care of? etc. (They studied ancient civilizations to best guess on what the answers to these questions might be.) For feeding the animals they had bags for food and pots for water which they kept piled up on the side of the ship as away to store them. They also guessed that they had a feeder for the animals which you would only have to fill every couple days and a system of getting rid of the animals poop. Each person would have to take care of an 1/8 of the animals which was a big number but not overwhelmingly big. The animals were kept in cages and not roaming free so they wouldn't harm each other, and only land animals mainly would need to be kept on the ark. I have included the pictures here of answers to common questions so you can read for yourself this cool information. Along with pictures of the ark replica itself.
After the trip to the ark we had lunch then went back to the hotel to rest. After resting we went to a local mall.
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