A mini-vacation of sorts...

This weekend we had a mini-vacation, well kind of anyways!

My girlfriend and her family live in El Dorado/Sonora Texas. We go up there (5 hour drive one-way) to pick up telephone poles and help them with their house. This time we didn't work on the house like we wanted too but Dawn and I enjoyed spending some quality time together.

Friday after arriving we took a cave tour at the famous Sonora Caverns.

This is a wet cave so there are Stalactites and Stalagmites plus some other amazing formations. It was a bit warm in the cave, shorts and light clothing recommended. It's the first cave I've been in where it was quiet warm and we were sweating. We took turns carrying Trey, Dawn's young son. The tour was 2 hours long. We walked 2 miles but only traveled 250 linear ft. Pretty amazing. The cave loops back on itself. This was Fred's first time in a cave and he thought it was pretty interesting and beautiful. Michael and Dacey were back together again and we laughed as it's amazing how they just take off together like they have never been apart. Kids sure are amazing!!

Fred holding Trey walking down into the cave.

Looking up at a strange formation in the cave roof.

Dawn, Trey, Fred, Dacey & Michael

Horseshoe pool inside the cave.

Walking down the cave path.

Stalactite and Stalagmite formations.

Halfway through the cave Trey decided to spit up and thank goodness he did it on his Mother....I love the look Fred is giving it as he hates being spit up on!! Ewwwwww

This shows where the water level was at one time with the different formations on top and bottom.

They call these cave formations butterfly wings. As this cave is a wet cave most of the formations were the result of water dripping or sitting in pools.

This was the last part of the cave tour and these wall were formed by the wind. It looked as though we were walking through a gigantic skeleton. To keep Michael interested I told him it was a dragon skeleton, lol...It was a pretty neat experience. I've been through some other caves and each one is different. Michael and Dacey did fairly well on the 2 hour trek, you could tell in the last 20 minutes that they had had enough and were ready to go do something else. Dawn was definitely ready for a shirt change, lol...Oops!!