So we finally made it to Mammoth Cave! On Saturday Nancy, Katie, Adria and I headed out to visit the longest known cave in the world. We learned that they have discovered 350 miles of the cave so far! It was pretty amazing being that far below ground and it was interesting noticing the differences between this cave and Timpanogas Cave. You'll see in the pictures above that while there were some stallagmites and stallagtites (I have no idea how to spell that...) the cave was generally just interesting rock formations. It was amazing to see the incredibly flat rock that made up the ceiling. We had a blast taking the tour and learning about the history of the cave and checking out all of the amazing sights. It was also crazy that when you first enter the cave you have to walk down 300 steps right off the bat to get down to where the cave is level. (Luckily we didn't have to walk up 300 steps at the end to make it back out!) We had a great visit and can now check off one more thing from our list of "Kentucky To Do's". The only drawback to our visit was that the boys couldn't come too. Maybe next time!
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Wow! That is really cool! I haven't been in a cave in years. I was reading about the Carlsbad Caves the other day and thinking it would be fun to visit. I'm glad you guys are doing fun things!
You got some really good pictures of the caves!! I'll might have to get copies from you for my scrapbook since I didn't really take any pictures of anything while we were out here!! I'm singing a song too, it's called Take Me Home, Country Roads!!!
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