Cave of the Winds

 This weekend we went to Cave of the Winds near Colorado Springs.  It was busy but we were still able to get in there.  The caves were cool!!  Here are Matthew and Anna trying on some hats and getting ready to go in!

 The entrance

 Some pictures inside the caves.  As you can imagine, it was dark in there and hard to get a good picture.  Scott held Grant in the baby bjorn the whole time.  Grant was very good until the end of the tour, when he started screaming.  :(

 Matthew was so happy!

 There were a lot of low clearance places.  I like how Anna is also ducking, even though her head is well below the cave ceiling.  :)

 

Matthew likes this picture.  This is the hole people used to have to climb down to get in the cave.  Glad we don't have to anymore.  Looks treacherous.  

Scott and I were discussing that we have been in three **natural caves since we've been married and all of them with his parents.  We went to one in Okinawa called Gyokusendo (see pictures HERE).  That was a very wet cave.  The stalactites seemed to grow so fast they had to cut them off.  Or maybe they don't have the reverence for stalactites that we do here.  :)  We also went to Carlsbad Caverns together in New Mexico.  This was back when we were newly married and making our first military move together - Florida to California.  I didn't blog back then or take very many pictures, but here is one (below) of us in Carlsbad Caverns!  Exciting!

**We've also been in one man made wine cave and the underground caves used by the Japanese soldiers on Okinawa in WWII.

Caves are pretty exciting, huh?  More so if you are there.  We had a good time!