Vacation Day #2

Today was a normal day. I say normal, because nobody was near drowning, running out in the road, or trying to  break an arm or leg. So, yes it was normal. YAY! So, this post might be just a little boring. :)

We left today headed for our second day filled with fun! WHOO HOO!!!

Destination- Cathedral Caverns

Have you ever heard of Woodville, AL? Yeah, I didn't think so. I am not sure if there is anything in it besides Cathedral Caverns State Park. But, if it is, I missed it.
In all the years I have lived in the beautiful State of Alabama, I have never went to CCSP. At least not that I could remember it, anyway.
So, for all of you that  does not know about how the Caverns came to be, let me give you a history lesson.

Cathedral Caverns was once known as Bat Cave. (The only thing I could think about when the guide told us this was, "To the bat cave".) A man by the name of Jay Gurley sold everything he had to buy the place. He work ten years to make it a show cave.  When he showed it to his wife for the first time, she said the Big Room in the cave looked like a cathedral, so he changed the name to Cathedral Caverns. Wise man, Jay!
He would charge people .25 to enter the cave. He kept the cave until 1974.  IN 1975, it was sold at an auction. The State of Alabama  bought it in 1987, and didn't have the money to fix it up. Finally, in 1995, they started working on it, and it was opened in 2000 as a state park.  Listed below are the five world records that the State claims that the CCSP has :

*  Largest Commercial Cave Entrance
*  Largest column in the world. Goliath measures 45 feet tall and 243 feet in circumference.
*  Largest flow stone wall which is 32 feet tall and 135 feet long.
*  Most improbable formation in the world. A 3 inch diameter stalagmite rises at a 45 degree angle from a   rock formation to the cave ceiling 25 feet above.
*  A Big Room, which is 792 feet long and 200 feet wide.

You can take that with a grain of salt.
But, the one fact that you really need to know in all of this is: I walked 1.3 miles today, inside a cave that was filled with 45 degree inclines, and made it out alive!  Now that is a record! :)

Here are  some pictures from today-

Notice the Cave Man at the top. He's holding a club. It's so easy, even a cave man can see it. :)

Honest Abe's silhouette. No, it's not really him.