Vacation day 2

The second day of our trip we took our last tour of the caves. It was the Historical Tour which begins with the beautiful natural entrance to the caves.

Right inside you find the site of a mining operation - people used to get saltpetre from the limestone and make gunpowder with it. You also find some graffiti. I took this shot of a 170 year old signature, because the guide mentioned that this person also owned another cavern, which Tom Sawyer explored. The boys are enthralled with the "Tom and Huck" stories their grandpa tells them.
It goes from huge high and open passageways all the way down to this tight squeeze:

A few times I noticed something fluttering about the cave... I decided to take a shot of the rock formations and then found right in the middle of the shot I had managed to capture the bat flying! (it's blurry but it's there) This was especially exciting for Ian "Batman" McElheny. :-)

On the way back out... everyone tired and hungry...


Out and on the way to lunch (the only bribery that worked to get them to pose like this):
The rest of the day was spent swimming and going to Dino World...