Today started our mammoth cave adventure. We got up, finished packing and headed out by 9am. We headed up to Nashville to have lunch at Sushi Train, a conveyor belt sushi resteraunt. They have an all you can eat lunch Buffett and we all stuffed ourselves silly. I believe between the 10 of us we polished off 97 plates! After we rolled ourselves out of the resteraunt we drove the rest of the way to mammoth cave kentucky. We went straight to "kentucky down under" a small adventure zoo. Since the zoo was situated up on a big hill dad was very kind and rented one of their golf carts for me and mom to drive around so we could participate too. We had so much fun! The kids got to pet snakes, see lemurs, feed kangaroos, emus, and wallabees, see and touch gian tortoises, goats and ponies. We went to see the lorikeets and feed them and the kids loved having them land on their heads! We were all hot and sweaty, it was 100*, and the lorrakeets thought we made great salt licks. They also have a small cavern on the property. It was a really neat cave. It was a very wet, very active cave. It was also very small but that was good too so i could do it without problems. After we explored the park we headed over to the mammoth cave park to check into our cabin. The cabin was nice enough, basically 4 bedrooms connected by 2 baths. The only downside was that their was no air conditioning, which normally wouldnt be too much of a problem, but since the temp was 97 and the feels like temp was 105-109 it was a bit of a struggle for this pregnant lady. Dad was kind enough to bring a fan for my bedroom so i didnt completely melt. After we unloaded the cars, dad, jon, and kristy headed off to a candlelight tour of the caverns . mom and i fed the kids and put them to bed. It was a good, but hot first day of vacation.
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