Ksyrup
09-24-2010, 01:35 PM
So I'm sure the vast majority of you probably have no clue what this is, but the World Equestrian Games start tomorrow and run for 2 weeks here in Lexington. It's basically the world championships for all of the non-race equestrian competitions.
It's supposed to draw 500,000 people from over 60 countries to central KY. It's the first time the event has been held in North America. It's the largest sporting event to be held in the US in 2010 and the largest sporting event ever held in this region. So, we're expecting crazy traffic and not bothering to go out to eat. In fact, our school system moved fall break up a week so we could get the hell out of town if we wanted - so we're going to Gatlinburg the week of the 4th.
Should be pretty interesting - I've already seen a group of hot Swedish women tooling around downtown, and last night I flew back in to Louisville from Chicago and there was a huge plane with arabic writing on the side with 4-6 cop cars, a couple of limos, and a dozen-SUV processional waiting plane-side. So I suspect it was a foreign dignitary who came in for the WEG.
The interesting thing is that while this area is of course known for horses, it's almost completely thoroughbreds/racing and none of thsi type of stuff. No one from the state of Kentucky is actually competing here! Can't wait to see what the traffic looks like next week on the way home every night...
It's supposed to draw 500,000 people from over 60 countries to central KY. It's the first time the event has been held in North America. It's the largest sporting event to be held in the US in 2010 and the largest sporting event ever held in this region. So, we're expecting crazy traffic and not bothering to go out to eat. In fact, our school system moved fall break up a week so we could get the hell out of town if we wanted - so we're going to Gatlinburg the week of the 4th.
Should be pretty interesting - I've already seen a group of hot Swedish women tooling around downtown, and last night I flew back in to Louisville from Chicago and there was a huge plane with arabic writing on the side with 4-6 cop cars, a couple of limos, and a dozen-SUV processional waiting plane-side. So I suspect it was a foreign dignitary who came in for the WEG.
The interesting thing is that while this area is of course known for horses, it's almost completely thoroughbreds/racing and none of thsi type of stuff. No one from the state of Kentucky is actually competing here! Can't wait to see what the traffic looks like next week on the way home every night...