To cool things off, we decided to head underground, where it's always 55 degrees:
Again, we had some time to kill before our cave tour, so my niece found entertainment chasing a butterfly.
And me with taking pictures of it:
Yay, finally inside the cave. We were on quite a large tour, over 100 people:
Look, Grandma is actually in a cave!
My niece and Willy:
Some of the neat formations we saw toward the end of our tour:
This formation was called bacon (even caves are getting in on the latest fads):
Up next, we visited the home where Lincoln was born (supposedly), which isn't too far from Mammoth Cave. This isn't actually the house, but the protective shelter that famous architect Alexander Pope designed to build around it:
Here's the log cabin which was inside the shelter. We discovered that it was only a few years ago that they carbon dated the logs and determined that the cabin wasn't quite old enough to be the actual house Lincoln was born in. It was still pretty old either way, and was found on the property:
Ornate door handles on the structure around the cabin:
And to tie this stop into yesterday's adventures, President Taft was the one who dedicated the opening of this National Historical Park when the protective structure was opened:
Just a little further up the road was where the Lincoln family moved when he was only two years old. This is a re-creation, but the logs are from a childhood friend's house (and he was the childhood friend who saved Lincoln's life one day when they were swimming):
Just some other sights around the park:
Last stop of the day was the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. The park was closed already, but we still wandered around anyway:
It was very picturesque, like all of the horse farms around Lexington:
My niece greeting one of the horses:
Secretariat statue:
Man o War statue:
...lastly, just a funky tree that was in the park that I liked:
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