Sunday, July 12

Hello again, everybody! We visited Mammoth Cave today, which was a simply stunning natural creation. We got up quite early, around 6:15, and had breakfast. Around 7:30, we left the campground, driving a short way to the Visitor Center of Mammoth Cave National Park. We inquired about tickets, and decided that the New Entrance Tour would be the best choice. It was affordable, fun, and showed the astonishing immensity of the caverns while keeping in a short, easy tour. Many pictures were taken, several "oohs" were "ahhed," and so on and so forth.

After going to Mammoth Cave, we stopped at Big Mike's Rock Shop, apparently the biggest rock shop in Kentucky. We bought a few rough rocks to tumble back at home, and left for camp shortly after. Staying at camp for lunch held no surprises; we got back, fixed a few sandwiches, and hung around for a few hours before driving to Bowling Green, where we bought a few essentials for the camper and the cameras. Finally, our last stop in Bowling Green was Rafferty's, a great restaurant with great food (and sugary martinis, one of which made Dad pucker quite a bit, much to the laughter of us all).

Following our jaunt in Bowling Green, we made it back to camp in one piece. I got the flag down from the camper and stored it away, getting back inside shortly afterwards. And, as it happened, not a moment too soon. About ten minutes later, all hell broke loose, in the form of a monstrous thunderhead. Soon enough, lightning was cracking all around, and thunder was booming loudly. One or two trees broke down, but no damage occurred to our camper (thank God).

That concludes the day's events. However, there's one thing I wish to mention before signing off. I'm finding it extremely difficult and frustrating to upload pictures from our cameras to Picasa, a site which has a link on our blog. Ergo, I'll instead email the pictures to you all while I figure out Picasa in the meantime. As they say in German, auf Weidersehen, und gute nacht. For those who don't know German very well, it means "goodbye, and good night."