While the in laws where here we had a pretty great time. Along with Majong which is our family game ever sense my mother in law taught it to us, we took a trip to the Caverns. This was the first time ever for my children to see a cave and I haven't been sense I was a really young child.
We left fairly early with it being more then an hour drive from our house. Coffee in had and snacks in the bag we were ready to go.
Cumberland Caverns
Heres a link if your in the area and you ever want to go
You have to walk to the cave from the gift shop, its about a quarter mile from the gift shop.
I was worried that the walk to and from the cave plus the 1.5 mile walk in the cave would be hard on the little ones. Thankfully I was wrong.
Shyanne and Amariah walking to the cavern
The door to the Cavern
Inside the Cavern was amazing! My most favorite part which was pretty much at the very beginning was the pool of water. It was Crystal Clear and almost looked fake. The clearness of the water gave an illusion of it being really shallow but they said that at its deepest point it was over 7ft deep.
Impressive.
Here is the pool of water all lite up
These look so amazing! I cant believe that underground is such beauty
The pool of water is filled with a waterfall and here it is....
The water fall behind the kids and Mother in law, Kathy
I did not dress up for the cave lol but here is proof I was there. ;)
Here is the waterfall again. Better picture. BEAUTIFUL!
more pics....
A bat! Is this batmans cave? lol ok lame joke alert.
This is the longest room in the cave. I forgot how long they said it was but it keeps going and going. Its like 4 foot ball fields or something crazy?
Group Pic!
This was right before we had to walk up as is STRAIGHT UP 350 stairs. Man it was a work out and I was carring a 25 lb toddler to boot
More awesome shots
They had a light show. In the show they narrator the man who discovered it and how he got stuck in the cave for 3 days and 3 nights. Which he didnt know the length of time seeing as how it was completely dark in there and he could not find his way out. If it wasnt for his friends coming to find him he would have died, so they shut off the lights and yeah it was DARK. The youngest two of my babies were not happy about the minute of darkness.
This is the area lite up and those are called pipe organs in the back ground. They even make nose, hints the name.
more photos of what we saw on our walk out of the Caverns. which was hard to look at as your trying to not fall from the slippery path and misleading depth of how far away it is. But it was well worth the effort.
The kids and I thought this looked like fingers coming down from the ceiling. Dont say that in front of a 4 yr old. Levi got really scared and didnt want to walk under it after that.
I dont know how they proved it but apparently this wall of graphity is authentic and from the first visitors to the cave.
I dont know who that man is? But thats Allyson standing in front of the grave yard. This isnt really wear they are laid to rest but its in memory of someone who died in the cavern.
This chandelier is from New York where some oprah house shut down and they brought it to the caverns. Apparently this is one happing place to listen to bluegrass underground. They hold concerts once a month and weddings, sleep over tours etc....
Look even the Caverns celibates Christmas.
On the drive in we say this really cool barn that I just had to get a picture of and include here.
And seeing as how it was past lunch time we just had to stop off and get food. Here is my cute 2 year old enjoying a frosty. (She loves Elsa if you cant tell)
So it was a very long day but worth the trip we even had my dad over for dinner which was an easy take and bake pizza as I was exhausted!
And a game of Majong to finish it off!
Shyanne and Santa, I mean my dad.
Majong
(This is actually a pic of us playing on New Years eve but it just shows this is our game)
