Caverns and Bats

Monday was a beautiful sunny day in Louisville.  After a leisurely morning, we all went to the Louisville Mega Caverns.  None of us had ever been there, very cool (literally -- 58 degrees year round).  Pretty neat experience.  You should go if you get the chance!  Here are some pix:

Salt stored in the caverns to use in the winter time

A lot of the cavern space is under the Louisville Zoo

 

Showing how blasting and testing was done to get the limestone

Exhibit showing how worms can 'recycle'.  Here the tour guide is

eating a worm!!!  (OK, it's a gummi worm, but sure fooled me!)

Waiting patiently for the kids to pick things out from the gift shop.

Later in the day, some of us went into town to look at some 'bats' -- that is, baseball bats at the Louisville Slugger Museum.  And, yes, you can park a 30' RV downtown!  Here are some pix from that adventure (they didn't allow cameras inside the actual tour):

Big Bat

New meaning to "crowding the plate"

This gigantic mit was created from Louisville limestone

Bryan getting to try things out in the batting cage

The rest of the day was very relaxing as we just 'hung out' and did whatever... we also celebrated Liz's up-coming birthday and had some yummy cake.