Our End of the Summer Trip

This past weekend Chris, Dylan, and I went on our end-of-the-summer-trip. Saturday morning we drove up to McMinnville, TN to the Cumberland Caverns! We arrived at 3:30 and check in wasn't until 5:30 so we walked some trails. It was beautiful. We also visited the gift shop where Dylan bought a whip (like Indiana Jones has). He played with out by some trees while we waited. When it was finally 5:30 we began the .5 mile hike to the cave entrance. Dylan was so excited! He's never been in a cave before and he'd been looking forward to this trip for weeks now. After we unloaded our packs, we went on a commercial tour. This tour was in the "lit" part of the cave. We got to see some really neat stuff and we experienced a cool light show. After that tour we got ready for the "wild" tour. For this tour we all had to get helmets and flashlights. We also had to squeeze through a little box to prove that we could fit through the smallest parts of the cave. The wild tour lasted a few hours and boy did it wear us out! We were done by 11:00. We then sat in the "ballroom" and drank hot chocolate (it was very cold in the cave) and had a little snack. I thought Dylan would be too wired to go to sleep but he was out in minutes. Chris and I had a harder time and learned a valuable lesson---always bring an air mattress to a cave sleepover! Anyway, we made it through the night and were treated to breakfast the next morning.

On Sunday, we decided to detour to Lynchburg, TN in order to tour the Jack Daniels Brewery. The tour was really neat and alot of fun! Dylan didn't care for the smell but he liked the tour anyway :-)

Enjoy the pics!