Explore the Parks of Louisville, Kentucky

Chaz Rough: Welcome everyone to this edition of lookin’ @ Louisville. My name is Chaz. Stacey Yates: I’m Stacey. Chaz Rough: Now this is the spring break family editions and we’re going to do— Stacey Yates: Family, that’s right. Chaz Rough: That’s right, family. We’re going to do from a really great ice Café here in Louisville, Kentucky lands in the edge of the highlands, some of the great price to start up the spring for the kids for breakfast, lunch and even dinner. Stacey Yates: That’s right, it’s the Louisville original restaurant and boy it’s on fire, it’s more than a restaurant. It’s an attraction in its home right. Chaz Rough: And people come all around the world and come in to breakfast and nap over here on the wall when it shows people had to come here from every county and they’re doing here. Stacey Yates: Macro spy. Well, we did a little backwards with that we’re going to start with breakfast and we got up a little late so we started with lunch actually. I had a grilled Portabella mushroom now, Chaz, yours also. Chaz Rough: I had a grilled chicken sandwich and some cantaloupe. It’s like eating in home very vegetable cooking. What I like about it is some pepper shakers nothing mad because this is a very eclectic restaurant. Stacey Yates: Well then we want to tease you a little bit. What we would have picked around there’s what we’re having for desert, and that is one of their quench essential dishes here this lean meat in fact, this one an episode of road on with Bobby Flakes, this is the Bourbon French toast she had some other made out of steak on the grill. Chaz Rough: I think she beat him. Stacey Yates: She beat him and this is just a wonderful example of that. We’ve also got a fairly melting Bourbon ball milk shake and that you want to check out when you’re here. Chaz Rough: Now we’re going to have to burn this also, so where do they’re going to do? What are we going to do to burn out this food? Stacey Yates: Well, Louisville has a lot of things that you can do over spring break and we know fair back we get fantastic things like the Kentucky Derby Museum, the Slugger and that chapter. Chaz Rough: That is really true. Stacey Yates: Yes, some wonderful attractions. Today, we’re going to talk about this topics. We’re going to walk up these calories starting at the Louisville Museum where going to visit with a great attraction of the Louisville Museum. When you’re old maybe study the African element that was born to Mikki. We’re going to meet with him. He’s going to be celebrating her birthday over the spring break for some people. In a minute, in things all I know Museum relics on Downtown Louisville on Main Street at the Louisville Science Center, its Kentucky’s largest main spot. Chaz Rough: Well now if you like to be a part of this podcast it’s really send us an email podcast@gotolouisville.com and if we use your question whatever you want to send us please let us know. You can even probably send the recipe to this sure email. Stacey Yates: Now if we hear with Matt. Chaz Rough: And if we use it we’ll send you a cool Louisville shrug, a T-shirt or caps or vintage or so. Of all that being said. This looks really good I mean look at you at the ends of tomorrow. Stacey Yates: Let’s go. Chaz Rough: Over here at the Louisville Zoo and I have Gibb Campbell here with me and we’ve got Scotty and of course the other end well it’s Stacey. Now Gibb tell us a little bit of Scotty because he was born in captivity here in Louisville Zoo. Gibb Campbell: Yeah, he is born right and 11 months ago. He is weight and trade about 1,000 pounds right now. He gained either two pounds a day. We’ve taking some 22 to 24 years to get full grown and what’s now will be give or take almost about 11 foot tall. 12, 000 to 14,000 pounds he’ll go outside for couple of three to four hours, and then we’ll force her to come in the morning. We will clean everything, giving her bath, He mostly nursed. He is actually started to need some high grain now, but you know and I’ll give her to treat some stuff. Chaz Rough: How long will he nurse? Gibb Campbell: He’ll nurse. He protect year and a half, two years Chaz Rough: Well, people come out in Louisville, how often will they see him come close can they get to him? Gibb Campbell: They’ll see everyday whether per meeting around 10 we open up and till we close. Stacey Yates: Well, happy birthday maybe Scotty can check him out the world of zoo. Okay, I left Chaz eating lunch with the baby Scotty and sneaked away with my big friend Kira who brought me over on a golf course that’s to where we are now. That gorilla fourth exhibits. Kira: That’s right. Stacey Yates: I want you to talk a little about this which is great to do whatever the weather is because of the indoor environment, and then tell us a little bit about the other prominent attractions that people can see when they come to Louisville Museum. Kira: You’re right Stacey, the Louisville Zoo is actually open year round. We only close three days a year, so even if it is cold and nippy outside or it’s raining we have a lot of great exhibits you can come to like the gorilla of course here we have currently have 11 gorillas here, so you can come out and spend time here and we actually have some really cool camps going on year. Stacey Yates: Alright, tell me where you can actually sleep where we are right now. Kira: Yeah, if you just go to our website Louisvillezoo.org you can check out all the cool camps we have gone and one is actually a family night Safari camp. Stacey Yates: You can actually spend the night. Kira: Okay. Stacey Yates: Here in the gorilla exhibit. Kira: Yeah, you bring your sleeping bags and full of mats. Stacey Yates: I don’t know who is on display. You’re watching them and they are watching your interesting family habits. Kira: That’s right. Stacey Yates: So that’s really cool. Kira: Now beyond that gorilla, a lot of cool things going on here at the Louisville Zoo. We have a lot of interactive exhibits like how to keep landing where the birds will come and they’ll land right on you. And want to be welcome back where you can walk around in the wall be so maybe can right up to you. Stacey Yates: Very cool, so even if your family spring right clans don’t include the wildness of the beach you can wild time here at the Louisville Zoo. Chaz Rough: Okay, we’re here now at the Louisville Science Center down on the Main Street and where the I-Max theater and I’ve got Greg Colabeski with me and he is a theater manager here and working for this big Mac Daddy I-Max play. What you want to call this. Male: Projector. Chaz Rough: Projector. Male: Yes. Chaz Rough: Now this thing is huge. The wall is huge and you get to show great movies in here now. Tell us why it’s the great place to come for kids and families where moms and dads force to bring. Male: Traditionally Imax films are education entertainment based. Right now we are running Hurricane and the Bayou, wonderful film. We also showing Mummies: The Secret of Pharaohs which is a very interesting film and about the mummification process and tell the history about anthropology, field of mummy, study of mummies and now on May we’re going to be opening up dinosaurs alive. Chaz Rough: That will be great, sounds huge on May. I’ve got that. Male: And we have exhibit to go along with it. So Chaz, I mean absolutely it’s good to be come in here. Stacey Yates: I have Scott Elby and he is the director of Visitor Interaction, very cool title and we are in front of the new brains exhibit which is two day exhibit it’s going to run through? Scott: To the first of May it’s going to three exhibits we get throughout the year and brain obviously is going to focus a lot on this human brain. Stacey Yates: And also I saw some other brains in there too. Scott: Yeah, when you first open the exhibit this one has different types of brains from dinosaur brains, another primates and dogs. Stacey Yates: Okay and I hear that’s a real favorite of the kids. Scott: Everybody loves to see the real items when possible. And that’s a nice aspect to this exhibit as a hands on interactive exhibit that talks about an item that you don’t get much experience with. Stacey Yates: Tell us about the hands on things. What can we expect, what’s to push and things to feel at it. Scott: Things to feel, things to open, there’s a variety of different pieces here because the exhibit talks about brain disorders, talk about brain development through only childhood and to adulthood. Chaz Rough: Of course we made it into the place, I’ve been a big kid myself I love to bring my kids this is the kids zone here at the Louisville Science Center and I’m here with Robin . Now what is the kids get to do when the kids zone exact. Robin: In kid zone they could be a bus driver, look and fly airplane. They can be an astronaut and be in the space rocket. There’s a water exhibit they can play with, with puppets and costumes. There’s a lot of dramatic play and places just for the children. Chaz Rough: So there’s a lot of freedom and you basically say, yes hands on we want you to touch everything. We want you to play with everything. Robin: Now everything is hands on here. It’s all about the children. Stacey Yates: I’m here with Ericka Dansberg, she is the Marketing Director for the Louisville Science Center, Ericka, thank you for having us today. Ericka Dansberg: Thanks for coming. This is Then Phowta, she is our resident mummy and she has been with the Science Center as long as the Science Center has been around and she was actually recently identified as a female. Stacey Yates: Okay. Ericka Dansberg: And I’m proud of this, she is in fact now a female. We know for sure that she is. She was a part in the Saint Louis World’s Fair that’s how we do actually got her here. So she is probably almost popular exhibitor even though we are science and technology center. Chaz Rough: Well I would say we’ve had a very fun day as far as for spring break this is some great stuff. Stacey Yates: Really, been one of my favorite podcast taping and because of the behind the scenes that we’ve got to do in the clothing out. We are in the theater all dress out. It’s very good to do that. Chaz Rough: Right and we get to either see. Let see the living sea. Stacey Yates: Mummies. Chaz Rough: Mummies, wired wind or— Stacey Yates: Hurricane on the Bayou. Chaz Rough: Hurricane on the Bayou. Stacey Yates: What’s that kind of my pick. Chaz Rough: Is that your pick? Stacey Yates: I’m all about the Bayou. Chaz Rough: But you know what, ladies choice it is so Stacey Yates: Alright, well thank you. Chaz Rough: So thank you all very much for hanging out with this and — Stacey Yates: And enjoy your spring break. Chaz Rough: So as always. Stacey Yates: You’ll lookin’ @ Louisville. Chaz Rough: See you real soon.