Luray Caverns

Luray Caverns is a couple hours drive from here so we made the trek out on Saturday to see them. I succumbed an advertisement on the radio but it was completely worth it! The entrance fee is $21 per adult but children under 6 are free, so it came out to about $10 a person.

The drive was tolerable for the kids - Elijah kept pretending to be angry at us and then changing his frowny face to a smile.

They had a fun audio tour just for the kids and Elise kept parroting the facts for me. I learned so much from listening to her and she so looked forward to the audio cards. "Mom - they said it reach up to the ceiling- 20 feet!" She got a little frightened when they started talking about ghosts but I explained to her that it just looks like Pluto's ghost and that there weren't really ghosts down there. How does she even understand what that is?

This was my favorite part - I believe it was called Mirror lake. At first glance it appears to just be a deep cave with symmetrical pillars. It was really beautiful.

Aaron was sneezing quite a bit when we got down there but it soon cleared up. The air down there is cool and clean. The bedrock cleanses the air so it is about 97% bacteria free.

This rock formation looks uncannily like sunny-side up eggs!
The wishing well gave off an unearthly blue-ish green glow and we learned that it was a chemical reaction of the pennies, rock and water. They fish out all the money once a year and donate the proceeds to various charities and have raised over $600,000.

Me and my girl Elise.
It was about a 1.25 mile walk that was really informative and interesting that our whole family enjoyed. I am always amazed by nature and it's intricate designs - to me it testifies of divine creative design!