Wednesday, June 28

We are busting out of this joint!!!

Today's the day.  Daisy is on her way home and now so are we!!!

We had a lot of stuff to figure out how to load up.  Luckily, we had thought enough to pack a few empty bags for carrying stuff in that we were able to each have a bag to use as an overnight bag and everything else went in boxes and got packed into the van.  If you have never seen Walter's packing jobs, you should really ask him about it, he is amazing.  I think it is like a game of Tetris to him!

So the van is loaded and we are headed out.  As we started across Arkansas, we stopped at the Welcome Center (a family requirement) and Abram spotted a cavern that he thought looked really interesting.  Lucky for him, I took a picture of the name and information.  Blanchard Springs Caverns in the Ozarks National Forest would be our first stop.  We drove for about 4 hours and got there about 15 minutes before the Dripstone Tour started.  We crammed in some lunch, grabbed a sweatshirt, and rushed to the doors.

Walking into that cave was unlike anything, any of us had ever done before.  It was amazing.  We took lots of pictures but they don't do it justice.  Katie kept saying, it's like a movie.  Abram was mesmerized and just kept looking around.  Walter was speechless for a little while and then he started to make BatMan jokes.  Here are some of the pictures, again, they don't do it justice:

After we left the caves, we picked a big city about 3 hours away and started driving.  We ended up in Jonesboro, Arkansas for the night.  After driving, we began to see a trend in Arkansas.  It was not as bad as we first thought and you could see for a long way.  There were still trees and it was still green but it was really flat for a long time before a mountain jumped up.