Lost River Kentucky

A day trip is a good thing when you don’t have the time or money to get to Tahiti.

 Here are a few photos from our trip today. Thanks to my friend, Sherry Thompson, we headed up with a small group to Bowling Gfreen, Kentucky to take the Lost River Cave tour. It was Niiiiice and cool in that cave. Good thing since it’s been above 95 degrees for weeks now. 

Grace in the butterfly garden

 Moments after the above photo was taken, Grace started to turn on us. At 7, she can still throw a pretty good temper tantrum when she is hungry or tired or hot… or in this case, all three. 

 Thank goodness Sherry took this as an opportunity to test out child psychology techniques learned on an internet TV show about some guy raising too many kids with good humor. She teased, cajoled and literally carried Gracie through the worst of it and narrowly averted Gracie disaster. I’d have paid her cash for that if I had it on hand. Go Sherry. 

Just down from the deadly blue pit

 Our guide told an entertaining and awful story about people jumping into a watery pit near the river you see above. They thought the “blue pit” was eating people because they’d dive in to see how deep it was and never come back… except I though he said they thought the “blue pig” was eating people. That was a much more interesting version, I thought. 

Lost river group

 The mouth of the cave was wonderful and fun. A wedding was going to be held there later. With the sound of the water rushing by, no one would have been able to hear a thing, but it should would have been a different-in-a-cool-kind-of-way of a service. 

One of about 2 cave formations

  Inside the cave we learned this is a young, but dying cave… and that caves get really good when they are old and dead. Only about another 10 million years and this cave will be really awesome!

Shakey river shot

Last couple of shots are for the Christmas card. Thanks for taking them Sherry!

 

Silly family unit

Family Unit