Staycation Event #5

Man we have been busy bees this summer! This event was lots of fun because we all 5 got to go. This is a real rarity around here because poor old SH has to work all summer while we get to play and our weekends are usually busy. But he wanted to go on one of our fun things too, so we saved this one for a Saturday. On Saturday, July 11 (our anniversary, actually!) we all went to Mammoth Cave up in Bowling Green. We arrived around 11:30, had a picnic lunch, then the kids worked on activity books about the cave while we waited for our Historic Tour to start at 2:00. The tour was 2 hours long and took us to all sorts of interesting places. We had just read a book called "Journey to the Bottomless Pit" about a slave who explored and found many of the sites we saw that day. There were huge caverns and small places to fit through. In fact, at one point Katie was the only one who didn't have to bend down, she was the perfect size to fit! We all had lots of fun and the girls want to go back and do it again so we can do all the tours.

On a funny note.....in our younger and more wild years Roger and I did the Wild Cave Tour, where you have a helmet, headlight, knee pads, elbow pads, etc and go in the little squeezy places to see more remote parts of the cave. We told the girls about this and explained when we saw a little crack, we would go investigate it and follow way off the beaten path. So on this day they had a kids version of that called a Trog Tour where the kids have all the gear on too. Their group passed us at one point with their headlamps on then went down some small little ditch to explore some small trail elsewhere. Anyhow, Katie got to calling them the "light people" and whenever we saw a little crack or hole, she would say, "Oh, that is definately a place for the light people." Over and over again for an hour and a half! It was so hysterical!

Next up, Carnton Plantation!

O:)
Melissa