Mammoth's Cave
I woke up pretty early because of a thunderstorm. I ran outside and brought in a few things that I figured we wouldn't want rained on. A few things that could have blown away as well. Cherry tried to run out into the storm both times I opened the door. Crazy girl.
The storm only lasted about thirty minutes and was not as crazy as the one when we first got to Kentucky.
Drove to Cave City to go on the Historic Tour at Mammoth Cave. The cave tour area was packed full of people. There's trails and other things to do at Mammoth Cave as well. Those areas had hardly any people. We got our passport stamped and got a few things from the gift shop. Walked the museum that they have about the cave system. Biggest cave system in the world. They discovered 6 new miles of the cave just last year. Every September they have the CRF come out and update their cave information. There's a lot more tours that you can go on but we booked our tour the week of. So the historic one was the only one available for the time that we are in Kentucky. It was two miles long and took two hours total. I thought it was the perfect amount of time and our tour guide was funny and informative. The other tours are all types of different skill levels. They have some tour where you actually climb through small parts of the cave and stuff like that. There were a lot of kids on our tour and they were extremely loud and did not know how to behave 😅 It was hard to hear our tour guide half of the time because of this. There were a few just running around all over the place in light up shoes. I feel like most places should have an age limit. Come if you're 12 (maybe 10) and older, stay if you're not lol. But even some of the adults did not know how to behave. Very annoying being in a small place, crammed in, with a bunch of loud disrespectful people lol. Aside from all of this the cave was pretty amazing. An entirely different world. Just underground. We didn't see any bats. 90% of the bats here died from white nose fungus. How awful. They probably all hangout in the parts of the caves where there aren't humans and lights all of the time. I felt bad that humans have ruined their space. But I was on the tour too, part of the problem. We did get to see a cave cricket though. They are hideous and look like spiders 😂 He was the only one and he wasn't bothering anyone and some random guy wanted to kill him 😐 The ranger specifically said no flashlights, flash photography, or touching the rocks and ceiling. So naturally many people had flashlights, flash photography, and touched the rocks and ceiling 😅 Sometimes I'm truly amazed that humans have made it this far.
Got back to the trailer and made most of the food in the fridge because we leave for Indiana tomorrow. A ranger knocked on our trailer door and said that there is severe weather heading our way and to keep an eye out. There's a tornado shelter right by our campsite if we need to go there. We have the cats cage out and ready to go just in case. I've been checking the weather and freaking out the last hour. Everything I've seen and read doesn't say that our area will be affected. I'm sure he is just being super cautious. But now I won't be going to sleep 😀
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