Woke up early Tuesday morning, had breakfast at McDonald's, then went to Luray Caverns at 9am. They don't have tour guides anymore (as of a month ago I think). Instead, they give each one a headphone and a controller. I like this audio tour better than having a tour guide coz I can take my time. Before they said that the tour takes about an hour. It tooks us 2 hours just because I want to really take in the sites and take lots of pictures (^_^) There are various posts with 2 sets of numbers on them. These are the numbers that you would input into your controller for the audio tour for that particular location. There are 2 sets of numbers because the one on top is for adults, and the one at the bottom is a children's version of the tour.
Even if Luray Caverns doesn't have Anthodites, it is much much more grand and breathtaking. The formations here are just so ... awesome! They have a mirror lake too like in Skyline Caverns but this one is bigger. They also have a stalacpipe organ which is the world's largest musical instrument because it uses stalactites to play music. And these stalactites are distributed through approximately 3.5 acres of the cavern!
I think the most memorable especially for Finn would be the fried eggs. They do look like fried eggs (^_^) I don't quite remember the history but I think they were stalagmites that broke off and the people before used to rub the remnants for good luck. That's why the "yolk" is shiny. Now it's prohibited to handle any of the formations to protect it.
After the cavern, we went to see the Car and Carriage Caravan Museum beside it. Lots of really cool vintage cars. The last one in the exhibit was worth more than $20,000 ... in 1935!!! Now that's an expensive car.
We were supposed to go Shenandoah National Park afterwards. We did, drove a few miles, but it was so foggy, we had to turn back. It was getting scary ... like we got lost in the twilight zone. Seriously, we couldn't see more than 5 feet away and driving in that condition on a very windy mountain road, it's dangerous. We turned back when the fog got even worse.
So we thought of looking for another park to go to and luckily, Jill (our GPS) showed us one nearby. We had to go through farmland and the back roads and when we got there, we were the only visitors. We didn't stay long coz it started drizzling too. Went back to the hotel before leaving again for dinner.
The next day after packing up, we checked-out and had breakfast at Burger King. We thought of going back to Shenandoah National Park but it was raining and I could see the fog in the mountains. Don't want to drive in the fog again so we just headed back home.
We're thinking of going back there especially to visit the national park. Hopefully in the summer, or fall to see the changing of the leaves.
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