Underground!

At the end of summer, we always try to think of one cool, interesting thing for the kids to do.

This year we took Dyleva on a tour of the Lockport caves.

https://lockportcave.com/

It was really neat!

It was a warm, drizzly morning.  We began with an outside tour that had history of the locks, and the city.  

Next, we actually walked the lock, and the exterior area around, and learned about the ambitious agenda of one man to further his own ideas.

https://lockportcave.com/birdsill-holly/

Then we actually got to enter and walk throughout the caves.

So cool! Unlike the caves in PR made by water, these caves were manmade.  The experience sounded horrifying! They used to use dynamite to blow up the rock Then they emptied out the rubble about the size of a basketball, one after another.  That would take forever! 

In the boat. (The flash was bright!)

At one point they turned out the lights, to show us how dark it actually would have been for the workers.  It was erie!
Ha ha! No pun intended!

The tour ended with a simple boat ride through the caves.

I couldn't believe it; I was punching Dyleva.  !!!Can you believe we are riding a boat in a cave! That is so cool!  I bet you no other second/fourth grader rode a boat through a cave this summer!  

I loved it.  Then we went to a fantastic brunch.  A very different adventure this year.