So after a night of no sleep, and a not so promising day full of 17 years-olds cackling loudly and kids zipping up and down the drive of our campsite on their bikes and scooters, we decided we would leave the utopia of Trout River behind us a day early. I have always wanted to go to Luray Caverns (they always have ads on tv and the radio), so Andy googled it on his Treo and we were less than 30 minutes away. We decided to head there instead, so we packed up camp and arrived there first thing this morning. As we were leaving, there was a long line out the door, so we were grateful the Griswalds had woken us up early enough to beat the crowds.
Me and Calvin posing in front of the sign. He was just glad to be out of the car.
This was called Dream Lake and was one of the neatest things we saw (sorry it's a bad picture). It's a bunch of stalactites over a pool of water that's only a foot deep, but it reflects the overhead rock so it looks like they're coming from the floor as well. Very cool.
My two boys.
A wishing well that they drain every year and give the coins to charity - so far totaling $750,000. I threw in a nickel and made a wish.
Calvin had fun and kept trying to touch everything in sight. He kept jumping from me to Andy to the stroller. I think he just liked whoever was giving him the most action at the moment.
They found the bones of a 20-ish Indian girl at the bottom of the cave. The theory was that she had originally discovered the cave, but then they decided it would have been an intact skeleton instead of a broken one. Now they believe she was buried and her grave fell into a sink hole and hit the floor of the cave, breaking into pieces. Just thought it was interesting.
These formations were in National Geographics because they're the most well-formed "drapes" in any cave that has ever been discovered.
This was amazing. Somehow they discovered that the formations had different pitches when hit by a little hammer, so they rigged up an organ that taps different stalactites when different notes are hit. They played A Mighty Fortress is Our God. The rocks had perfect pitch.
