My dear readers know how much this family likes a field trip. It really is one of the best ways to learn about something. On our recent vacation to Kentucky, we were lucky enough to visit Mammoth Cave National Park. If you have never been there, then I am a little sad for you. I really recommend the trip to see it. It was beautiful! I always thought caves were sort of interesting, in more of a historical sense vs. science sense. I think it's fascinating to think about who used to live in caves, and what their lives may have looked like. Did American Indians live there? Did some bank robber hide out in there? Anyway, now I know that caves are also very nice to look at. I was really just delighted by the whole experience.
Here's a paragraph Scrappy wrote about our trip:
Mammoth Cave is really big. I had to walk down a whole bunch of steps to get inside. The walls were made of rocks. There were a lot of big puddles and pools. My favorite part was the Frozen Niagara. I was surprised that there was only a tiny waterfall there. It was mostly made of rock. I thought it was going to be like a regular waterfall, and maybe as big as Niagara Falls. But it was very small. It was cold in the cave. I had to wear a jacket. I didn't expect it to be that cold because it was so hot outside. I also saw cave crickets. They look kind of like spiders, except smaller. The ones that we saw were brown. I saw a giant spider, too. At the end, we had to walk across a giant sponge full of chemicals to wash our shoes. This is because of a special disease that bats can get. When we washed our shoes, we were making sure we don't spread it around to other bats.
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