Luray Caverns

To "beat the heat" of not having AC during a heat-wave and with Ben having the day off due to power-outages at work we decided to take a day trip. I thought we would go into D.C. and visit a few museums but Ben had a different idea, and since he was the one driving, I was just along for the air-conditioned ride.

An hour and a half later we ended up in Luray, VA to visit the World Famous Luray Caverns.

Since I am more of a picture-taker than a story-teller, here is some of what we saw.

The Fish Market.

The wishing stone-because it's in the middle of the walkway and if you walked into it you would "wish" you hadn't.;)

 

Stalagpipe Organ.

The Wishing Well. The kids were excited to see this as they had just watched a show on the History channel about how they clean all of this money and have the local football team help carry it out.

making a wish.

Pointing the "fried egg" out to those behind us.

 

Mirror lake

 

The hardest part-the 68 step climb back to civilization!

Enjoying some ice-cold Root Beer and Ginger-Ale after the hike up the stairs.

 

With our paid admission to the caverns, we also got free admission into their automobile museum.

 

 

 

 

There was also a train/toy display being set-up. The owner of all of the trains/toy is a 96 year old man who started collecting at age 5. He is donating his collection for the enjoyment of others. Most of the toys were Playmobil sets that are older than me. Some metal play-sets that included the original boxes, still in awesome shape, worth so much. So neat to see, and Andy LOVED the trains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On our drive back through the Shenandoah National Forrest, we got to see a Fire Helicopter as it was going from the river over to the fire in the National Forrest. The kids got a kick out of that.