Flashback Friday

For my faithful readers who don't live here in Louisville, today is just another Friday.  But for those of you in  Louisville, it's not just another Friday; it's Derby Eve. For pretty much the whole city, Derby Eve has become a holiday.  For a lot of businesses and companies, Derby Eve is a company holiday.  They figured they might as well close since a lot of the employees would take off anyway.  And in recent years, it's also become a school holiday, as well.  But I have the distinction of saying that my school was THE first school to be closed on Derby Eve. 

Back in the day, my school was about a block from Churchill Downs, and they would close school on Derby Eve so they could make extra money by parking cars in the parking lots. We didn't care- we were just happy to be off from school.  Like I said earlier, all of the schools in the city and county are closed on Derby Eve. At least we were the first.