Spring Break Day #1

I want to blog about spring break not in hopes that anyone will read it, but mostly for my personal records and for my brother Tanner :) It's the first vacation we've taken without him...and I miss him a ton. As crazy as he makes things, I wish he was here. Anyway, this morning we left for Spring Break 2013, Destination: New Orleans. My mom's not up for driving it all in one day so tonight we're staying in Alabama. We stopped today in Kentucky to see Mammoth Cave! Well, part of it. There's about 400 miles of cave and we only saw two of them. But they were awesome! We did the historic tour so we learned about the prehistoric people who explored the cave (and they know because they've carbon dated bodies that they've found back to 2000 years ago) and the more modern people who rediscovered it in the 1800s. I can't imagine exploring with no electrical lights. What happens if you're 3 miles in and your torch goes out?? There are names carved into the wall dating to 1839. We also saw one adorable little bat! I think that was the highlight of it for Grant. The highlight for me was two little boys on our tour who kept saying the cutest things. Our tour guide said something about there being heights later in the tour (there was a pit where he told us not to look down if you're afraid of heights). So one of the boys asked where the heights were and the other one pointed down the trail: "the heights are down there" and then he pointed upwards: "and God is up there!" Later in the tour one of them told their mom that they had to go because it was almost midnight. I guess when you're little and in a dark cave, you equate it with midnight!
Tonight when we got to our hotel we went out to eat at a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant that had southern barbecue and hush puppies. This place was not sophisticated, complete with leaky roof and all, but sometimes it's refreshing to get away from Zionsville. Our server was an adorable lady with a thick southern accent and I just wanted to take a picture of her! I wish I could take a picture of every little thing that I loved on every vacation so that I'd never forget, but that's so tedious. Anyway I didn't think I was that hungry when I got there but after I finished my barbecue chicken I picked over the bones at least twice more! Maybe it was so tasty because of the array of sauces on our table; there were no less than 6 different bottles. Ice cream cones after dinner were 25 cents each :)