auntie melo!

melo came to visit us this month!!!! the kids absolutely loved having her around. (koa still remembers auntie melo in his prayers - so precious!) one of the things we did with melo was visit mammoth cave. earlier in the year, all the state park caves were closed because of some killer bat disease, but now they're open again - yahoo! it was totally huge in there - and very dark, of course. we almost hit a crisis in the beginning of the tour when the tour guide announced that they had 132 species of animals that live in the cave. koa promptly started to disintegrate. i got down face-to-face with him and assured him that he would not see any animals at all and that they were far more afraid of him. he bought it! crisis averted. (luckily, we didn't actually see any animals. phew!) we did get to see the main areas of the cave, including an area where an entrance had caved in - reassuring! it was interesting to see inside and hear the history of the cave. the kids all did really well, but were kidsicles by the end. (it's very chilly in there - the guide said it was 54 degrees, but it felt more like somewhere in the 70s, upper 60s at the least.) thank you, melo for visiting us! come again soon!!!!!!!!