Mammoth caves

One Saturday in May we stepped out of the world and went to the Mammoth Caves. It was a weird, kind of awesome experience. First of all, the mammoth caves are in the middle of nowhere. Then you drive off on a dirt road for a few miles and you get to a peacock farm. There are probably 50 peacocks just running wild on the farm. Lexi had to use the bathroom and luckily for her we found an outhouse covered with spider webs that was built by Adam and Eve. Gross. She didn't notice. We walked over to the museum area and the smell reminded me of my grandparents house when I was a kid. Old. There was a layer of dust on everything. The man running the museum gave us two big lanterns and pointed us to the caves. The caves are probably about 1/3 mile deep and are giant lava tubes. Because they are dark and cool (thus the jackets on all of us in the pictures) they were once used as refrigerators before there was such a thing. After we toured the lava tube, we went to the museum. It was full of taxidermy and weird taxidermy at that. I really felt like I was in an alternate reality. Such a random place...

This beautiful rainbow showed up one night on our run. It was a full double rainbow but disappeared before I could get to it.

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