Quick Stop at Mammoth Cave

Wednesday was our drive up to the Creation Museum. It is a short 6 hour drive, so we decided to take a break in Cave City and see one of the shorter tours at Mammoth Cave. We took a short detour to drop stuff off at Stacy's parents which probably added an hour to the trip but it wasn't too bad. We made it to Cave City at around 1:00pm and had a great lunch at Mazatlan. Then it was off to the caves.

Mammoth Cave was were we started our National Park adventure back in 2011. We even went on the same tour (The Frozen Niagara Tour) as last time. The reasons for this were simple, #1 we needed a short tour as Julia couldn't take the cave for very long, and #2 by time we got to the cave it was the only tour left for the day. Unfortunately, Mammoth Cave has a new rule: No flash Photography. Now our pictures of the cave weren't the best quality last time due to having a camera that doesn't have good control features. Now given the dim light with an orange hue and no flash, our pictures were even worse. But it is still a fantastic trip.

The tour guide was quite entertaining and had a great sense of humor. One person asked (a retired tour guide as we later found out) asked if the cave was all underground. We moved some of it above ground was the reply. He then asked what we couldn't see in the cave, I said "the sky". Turns out I was wrong. There is a small hole in the cave where if you stand in the exact right place, you can see the sky. We got on the bus to the tour entrance, which for the majority of the tours is the tour exit, but we were doing the shortest tour available.

The tour was a lot of fun, but Julia decided it was enough about halfway through. She never cried, but she was talking loudly and expressing her displeasure at not being allowed to crawl or being fed. The assistant tour guide helped distract her during some of the time which helped everyone a lot.

After that, we walked over to the historic entrance and took a peek inside. It is a huge cave entrance, one might even say "Mammoth". Then it was back in the car and another 3 hours to Cincinnati. Stacy started getting car sick in Louisville and after much debate we decided on stopping at Dairy Queen for some ice cream and burgers. However the signs were incredibly non-helpful, so we gave up and ate at McDonald's instead. We eventually made it to the house in Southgate KY much later than originally planned, but we quickly went to bed looking forward to seeing the wonders of Genesis.