A day after the airplane ride that brought us back from Cuba, my family and I headed over to St. Catharines for one more visit to family before the big trip. With a delicious breakfast to fuel us, we set off on a nine- hour ride to Kentucky in the car. I brought as many things to do as I could, and I hope they don’t run out. Among the most important things was my Kobo, three books (I was only allowed to bring three) and as many writing tools as I could find.
The first six hours or so of the drive went by faster than I would’ve expected. We stopped for lunch at a Subway where this guy thought it was really cool when my dad used tap with his credit card. We listened to some recorded This Is That shows. (If you haven’t heard of that, it’s a radio show where the hosts tell fake stories that are hilarious. It’s now finished- the last episode was just a while ago.) The last three hours went by very slowly- I would look at the GPS’s countdown of how long we had left to drive, and only a few minutes would’ve gone by. The moral of my last sentence is: “Never go anywhere without chocolate peanuts!” Without chocolate peanuts, I wouldn’t have survived.
We stayed at a motel in Kentucky that wasn’t too far from Mammoth Cave National Park- we were less than an hour away. When we arrived there our tour wasn’t for another couple of hours, so we went hiking. I had not seen a spring before, but on the hike we saw one. Verdict: Weird and bubbly.
When it was time for the tour, we took a bus to a manmade entrance to the cave. Our tour guide was very funny when he was telling us some history of the cave- he told us about this person named George who explored the caves. The funny part was “And when George discovered the entrance to the cave, since he was a very brave man, he sent his nephew Earl down to check it out.”
For me, the best part of the tour in the caves was a large room filled with stalactites and stalagmites. Apparently it takes a few hundred years for the stalactites to get as long as a marshmallow, and these stalactites and stalagmites were certainly longer than marshmallows. There was an option to go down more stairs and look at another room called the Drapery Room, which my family accepted, and it was even more filled with stalactites and stalagmites. The Drapery Room was very tall and not very wide, and if you looked up the walls looked like draped curtains, obviously how the room got its name.
The Mammoth Caves was awesome, but in my next blog post I am going to write about my favourite place so far. The next place that I am going to write about is a place that you absolutely must go someday if you’re a fan of The Hobbit, a fan of dogs, or a fan of chickens.
I hope you keep up with the blog!
-Lucy
When it was time for the tour, we took a bus to a manmade entrance to the cave. Our tour guide was very funny when he was telling us some history of the cave- he told us about this person named George who explored the caves. The funny part was “And when George discovered the entrance to the cave, since he was a very brave man, he sent his nephew Earl down to check it out.”
For me, the best part of the tour in the caves was a large room filled with stalactites and stalagmites. Apparently it takes a few hundred years for the stalactites to get as long as a marshmallow, and these stalactites and stalagmites were certainly longer than marshmallows. There was an option to go down more stairs and look at another room called the Drapery Room, which my family accepted, and it was even more filled with stalactites and stalagmites. The Drapery Room was very tall and not very wide, and if you looked up the walls looked like draped curtains, obviously how the room got its name.
The Mammoth Caves was awesome, but in my next blog post I am going to write about my favourite place so far. The next place that I am going to write about is a place that you absolutely must go someday if you’re a fan of The Hobbit, a fan of dogs, or a fan of chickens.
I hope you keep up with the blog!
-Lucy
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