~ there's a neat museum at the Mammoth Cave visitor's center
~ cutest 1960's motel bathroom ever (Mammoth Cave Hotel)
~ cooking supper at the motel, white-tail deer watching us
~ we took the "Historic Tour"
~ big caverns....
~ ...to tiny squeezy passages
~ 114-plus-year-old graffiti
~ pits that Greta, Jeff, and I did not like walking over
(~ what people without phones do to remember hotels
they looked up on their laptop using visitor center wi-fi)
~ "the Claw!!"
And home. (or, close, pictured, at least.)
Gret and I (and Jeff, too) loved the caves, but Kaatje was fighting some claustrophobia so we only too one tour. Since Greta's eczema needed a bath, we got the last hotel room (with queen beds) for one night, and decided to get out of town along the way a bit to spend the next night.
A nice weekend in Des Moines (pick up the dog, eat homemade food!) rounded off our trip, and we rolled back home from another safe holiday away.
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We've fallen down the hole of the new school year around here... although we started our own readings and workings in the weeks before, I knew we'd be hard hit when we had to, for the first time, have multiple "early" morning responsibilities. (Spoken by the girl who got on the school bus at 7:15 am every day, I realize how good my girls have it.) One day a week the girls go all day to take classes at a not-close but big co-op, which we're all learning to love.
After a couple weeks here, we're finally feeling a little more in control; finishing projects and starting new ones, getting back into a rhythm even if it's a quicker one. The upstairs porch project is nearing an end, hopefully a reveal will be soon! (The girls say it's the "fanciest room in the house.")
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