Mammoth Cave Trip

We went on our first official trip of 2014 this past weekend.  We left Saturday morning after breakfast to drive to Louisville, KY to spend the night. 

We are just leaving the house in these pictures, and yes, that's snow outside.

Titus still quite proud of his newly lost teeth (from Thursday)

 

We broke the drive up into approximately 2 hour segments.  Our first stop was at a kart track outside of Indy.

Brian wearing the sweater I knit for him this winter.

 

We stopped at a really cool park in Louisville.  It was rainy, but much warmer than the snow that we left behind hours before.

 

We also stopped at a glass blowing place, which was really cool!  We didn't understand the tour information from online, so didn't see any actual glass blowing, but will probably go back another time to give it a try.

 

One of the kids favorite parts of any trip is the hotel.  Brian gets hotel points when he is gone for work, so we get great deals on fancy rooms.  I love hotel points :-)

After the required jumping on the couch, watching TV and swimming, we headed out for dinner.
We went to Chuy's.  It was awesome!!  The ladies making tortillas were so fun to watch.  Made the wait seem like no time at all.

 A good picture of me.

 Tortilla making.  These ladies are incredibly fast.

Sunday morning.

 Kids watching some cartoons waiting for me to get ready for breakfast.

 After breakfast we headed to the Corvette Museum in Bowling Green.  The kids had fun in the children's area and looking at all the corvettes.

 Titus pretending he's taking work orders at an auto shop and Isabele looking on.

Brian watching the kids play.

 Titus and Brian looking at a display.

After the museum we stopped at Sonic for some lunch and then headed to Mammoth Cave National Park.

 Isabele waiting for Titus and Brian.

Brian, Isabele and Titus posing in the cave.  We went on the Domes and Dripstones tour.  It took about 2 hours and was easy walking with about 300 steps down and 200 or so up.  Isabele was very intimidated at the beginning and Brian ended up carrying her down those 300 steps.  After we got down the steps, she got much braver and walked the rest of the tour.  She was thrilled that she didn't have to bend over in the small spaces and found it quite amusing that Brian had to duck a lot.  Titus was a trooper, followed the rules to a T and did all the steps on his own.

 

After we were done with our cave tour and a stop at the gift shop, we headed back to Indiana.  The kids did a super job all around.  After an hour nap before we stopped to grab gas and dinner, the kids managed to stay awake until we got home that evening at 10:45.