Last weekend Clayton and I invited both set of parents to the Lewis and Clark caverns, including a night stay in one of their cabins.
We were planning on taking Preston in the hiking back pack we used in Germany but with both of us forgetting how tight and cramped it is in the paths in the caves the back pack would have been a complete waste of time and luckily Clayton was told before we hiked up to the opening and we put it back in the truck.
Preston's favorite part was the echoness of the caves. Especially after he heard another of the little kids become loud.
Getting ready to go up
Such beautiful scenery
While they didn't discover the caves, the caves were along their route.
Waiting to go inside.
The entrance to the caverns.
The ceiling has damaged stalactite's from people breaking them off and keeping for souvenirs. Back when they were able to do that.
Very narrow stairways. This one in particular was difficult.
A hole cut to see if there was another room by explorers a long time ago.
An old stair way
Through this hole is called the queens room. The guide didn't talk about it but it was the 4th time going to the caverns and remember this fact from one of the times. Only thing I did remember haha
Two different colors. Amazing what natures chemicals can do
After the caverns we went down to our cabin to eat lunch. After lunch my parents went home and Clayton, Will, Cindy, and myself carrying Preston went for a long walk down the train tracks to a fishing spot. Clayton caught a sucker fish which was horribly hideous. Sucks that I didn't bring my camera cause it would have been cool to take some more scenery pictures or to take a picture of the train that came by while Clay and Will were fishing. Good thing it let us know it was coming cause Cindy was sitting on the tracks. But I also found two good rocks to actually collect for Bri. She has a thing for "finding" rocks. These two were worth collecting
