This weekend the 140th Kentucky Derby will take place at the world’s most legendary racetrack, Churchill Downs. I thought of this great day of racing today when a story about California Chrome showed up on my Yahoo homepage today. After reading the online article, I couldn’t help but think of last May when my son […]
Churchill Downs & the Kentucky Derby Museum
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13 Interesting Facts I Learned While Traveling in 2013
Considering that I named this blog Sherri’s Traveling Classroom, it should be no surprise that I enjoy learning. Learning wasn’t always that fascinating to me, especially during the years I was in school. The turning point for me was when my son entered grade school. We started to travel more to enhance his learning which […]
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