Caving In...

Jeremy and I went to Desoto Caverns today, and we had a good time. The caverns are about an hour from our place, and we've been wanting to check them out for awhile.


The inside of the cave was huge. The main room is about 100 yards long and tall enough to fit a 12-story building.

Here's Jeremy playing with his stalagmites and stalactites:


During the cavern tour it became abundantly clear the caverns are not government-owned. They put on a light show that consists of an unrelated reading of the creation story from the Book of Genesis (See also the Epic of Gilgamesh!)

At the end of the reading (which depicts God's voice with a flashing light and steam), they really drive home the exclusion by focusing on a flashing cross hanging from the cave.

Yeah...

Good thing there are no Jews in Alabama...



Outside the caverns were dozens of theme park activities, which the gift shop lady seemed surprised we didn't want to partake in. Bumper boats, a wall climb, and water balloons...

Thank God they provide all these recreational distractions so kids don't actually have to learn anything.

Some other educational highlights: According to our tour guide, Southerners in the mid-1920s were still called "Confederates." And, apparently, the waterfalls in the cavern dried up because "they had been running for too long, and they just got tired of running."

History according to Alabamains. Fantastic...