Day Five---Free Day! Well, kind of

On today's agenda...."Chill day at the hotel and pool".

If you don't know us well, Maria & I get "stir crazy" after staying some place for too long.  After eating breakfast, we did hang out at the hotel for awhile....until about 11am.  From there, we started looking around for something to do because we were already stir crazy!  Don't worry, we're using birthday/anniversary money for this.  It's not coming out of the $500 budget.  Lunch was in eaten in the car...peanut butter sandwiches with chocolate pudding for dessert (just as the plan stated)!

Stop 1:  The Howard Steamboat Museum in Jeffersonville, Indiana
This was a tour through the first two floors of a 30,000 square foot mansion (the largest in Jeffersonville).  The home is incredibly well-crafted, having the first indoor plumbing and indoor electricity in the city of Jeffersonville.  The original owner of the mansion owned the largest inland steamboat company in the U.S.  His company's steamboats were in high demand because of the quality.  Here are a some pictures.

   

  

Music Room

Stop 2:  The Culbertson Mansion in New Albany, Indiana
      While looking for something to do, Maria & I contacted a friend from college who lives in the area.  He recommended the Culbertson mansion.  So we met them and had a good visit going through the mansion!
     This home is a little smaller, only 20,000 square feet!  :)  The home was built for William S. Culbertson, who came to Indiana in the late 1800's.  The home is three levels plus a basement, making it quite massive.  The family lived in one section of the home, while the servants lived and children played in another.  Like the mansion above, the Culbertson mansion was one of the first to have indoor plumbing (on all 3 floors and in the basement) and electricity.  A couple of the pictures below show just how ornate this place is!

For you Halloween fanatics, they do have a haunted tour during the Halloween season.  Below are a few pictures.

  

         

We did spend the evening at the hotel as well.  Maria napped while I worked on doing laundry!  We always do laundry a couple days before we leave so we don't come home with a week's worth of laundry to get done!!  Overall, it was a great "chill day", despite the fact that we didn't chill too much.  It was great to have a day where we could decide to either do nothing, or find something on our own to see...we really appreciated it!