Getaways

With the excitement building as the 2010 World Equestrian Games come to Lexington’s Kentucky Horse Park Sept. 25 - Oct. 10, now’s a good time to pay a visit to the park itself. Get your tickets online, or at the Visitor’s Information Center. While you’re there, relax in the air conditioned theater and see “Thou Shall Fly Without Wings,” an award-winning film that serves as a great introduction to the world of horses.

Total relaxation. My feet propped on my son’s inner tube as I rested in my own. As we floated down the river, birds sang and their songs mingled with the sounds of water trickling along the shore, and among the trees on the bank. Trees that were closer than I thought. Trees we were supposed to avoid. Trees that knocked me out of my tube when I crashed into them.

Take an exhilarating trip through the trees!

You will be in awe as you approach the massive, new museum, Titanic: World’s Largest Museum Attraction — it’s half of the ship at 50 percent to scale from the original!

Aside from the artifacts, the many hands-on interactive features, timeless photos and knowledgeable crew, you are given the opportunity to hear and even experience what the passengers of the Titanic felt on that fateful night back in April 1912.

Gatlinburg, Tenn., is booming with excitement at Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies.