Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Natural Bridge Caverns Adventure

Over Memorial Day weekend we wanted to try something new that we haven't done yet in Texas, so we decided to drive down to the Natural Bridge Caverns (near San Antonio) and explore the caves.

It poured rain the whole drive down and continued to pour even harder once we got there, but we were just fine with that, since we were planning on being underground anyway. We sat in the car and ate our lunch/fed Henry, etc. during the worst of the downpour, and by the time we actually got our tickets and started our tour, it was only sprinkling.

The caves were amazing, and pretty family/kid friendly, although the paths were a little slippery. There was no crawling through tight, muddy tunnels or anything - we just walked on a little trail up and down throughout the caves. There were little lights so we didn't need flashlights (much to the dismay of the kids - they love a good excuse to turn on a flashlight).

For some reason blogger is acting weird and putting my pictures/captions all over the place, so these are looking a little random, but it's the best I can do for now.

Posing by the natural bridge:
























Going down into the cave. Everyone was being very brave:






























Looking at interesting things:


















Rachel wanted a picture of her pointing to this slimy bump:


















More cave awesomeness:
























































































The end:












Rachel has decided that her calling in life is to hold doors open for people.

3 comments:

Diane said...

Such cute pictures! You are so good at venturing forth and discovering new places to visit around where you live. We should have done that more with our children.

Beccarigg said...

Wow! Those look awesome! You guys are so good about taking advantage of local sights. In fact, your adventures are what inspired us to do so many things while we were in TX. If we ever get out there again those caves will be on my list!

So I just have to say how adorably handsome Tristan and Ollie look in your picture with the whole family. I love Tristan's long locks Ollie's buzz. Good looking little guys!

Eliza said...

that looks very exciting and brave. i like how the kids are holding so carefully to the railing on the way in. i would've been a tad bit nervous, i think.