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Last year when Steve & I visited the Mammoth Cave area..we knew we wanted to bring the boys back someday!

We really enjoyed the natural beauty of the caves and the non-city trip!

So we put that "someday" into motion!!

In April, we left for a loooong week-end...Thursday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday...to be exact!

We brought along both set of grandparents!

Here we are in our driveway before we started our 8 hr trip South.

We took two vehicles..every time we stopped I jumped in a different vehicle. 

Poor G-pa Neil got stuck with Bonnie, Linda & I for the first leg of the trip...he couldn't believe we could talk sooooooo much...solid...without breathing! yak yak yak...

We checked into our hotel and then headed to Cracker Barrel to have dinner...

Our waitress was so helpful with the Gluten Free diet...and no one had an issue! 

~Friday~

Up and at'em...we checked out of the hotel and were ready to head to the caves...

Steve was in a different vehicle than I as we headed in...he "requested" Dad stop so we could get pictures by this sign...believe it or not, Dad was NOT planning on stopping to get a picture!  Oh Steve..you know me too well!  No body wants to see me cry! 

We went on 2 tours... Historic and Domes & Dripstones

D&D highlights...3/4 mile, 500 steps, Drapery room, Frozen Niagara and caves..(lol).

Here we are heading down to the entrance of D&D

...see Dad & Linda half way down the steps... 

*disclaimer*

you can not use flash photography in the caves

Tyler, Troy & Trent heading down the bazzilion steps 

Steve & G-pa Neil 

Trent & Joanne

Trent 

Steve& Trent 

Naughty naughty..we used a flash..but only for this one!

(we heard the guide yell..."no flash photography!!") 

in between tours we had a picnic lunch..well kind of..would it be too much for the NPS to purchase a few picnic tables? 

Historic Tour

Highlights....2 miles, 440 steps!, Saltpeter mines, Rotunda, Fat mans Misery. 

This is a picture of the abandoned saltpeter mine

Linda squeezing under a cave

a lot of "ducking"

by the sign..:)

AWESOME day at the caves!!