Since we went to the dells for Annika’s Birthay we decided to go to Mammoth cave for mine.

Saturday after I got done with work, we got on the road and headed East. we didn’t drive all the way, I didn’t want to be on the road all night but we were about an hour away.

Sunday morning we got up and headed to the cave we walked around a bit, had a disappointing early lunch there. Afternoon tour Domes and Dripstones. We started with a short bus trip to the alternate opening down a LOT of stairs. this part was made from a sinkhole and there were a lot of cave features made by water. After the tour, we went back to the hotel to chill out where we had the evening kickback at the Drury.

Monday Morning 9/23 we got back to the cave JUST in time for our tour to the River Styx. Though the main entrance of the cave saw a bat just sleeping. The scale of the cave is hard to take in it is so large. This tour went down to the flowing water, they call it a river but the Ranger even referred to it as a stream. that part of the tour there were no lights in place so each group got a battery lantern to carry. That part of the cave can flood.

We headed for home before lunch grabbed some food on the road. we were projected to get back to town with no enough time to pick up the dogs and get home. So we drove directly to them, I got them paid for and Melissa went home got the leashes and the other car so we’d have enough room to pick us all up. The dogs and I just waited outside for our ride.