Longhorn Caverns

Once the family had a weekend together, we decided to make good use of it and go camping!

 

We stayed at Inks Lake SP.  We'd never stayed there before. The weather that weekend was absolutely perfect camping weather!  I was nervous it would be cold and packed nearly every blanket that would fit in the car. We used only most of them since Rylee threw up on half of them the first night. {not my favorite part of the weekend}  It was only a little chilly - we didn't even have to have a fire every night/morning but just too cold to want to swim.  I really liked the park a lot.  Its really close to Longhorn caverns aswell so the next morning we headed off to explore the caves. 

 We saw a few bats, and a fair amount of bat residue.

 This formation was pretty cool.  They call him "Rocky the Watchdog" haha.

 These crystals were really cool too, especially when you'd put your flashlight up against it.

 There is this big open area and it used to be a restaurant in the 1800's.  Seriously.  The kitchen is above ground and they would sent the food down and dirty dishes back up via a bucket. They would have dances there and then afterward everyone would head to the state park to "bathe" They've since put in a little elevator and they still cater special events.  The girls are on a stage that bands play on.  Only acustic instruments allowed but its supposedly amazing.  They between 5-10 weddings a year.  And they have Christmas Caroling and Santa events during the winter.  Interesting, right?

 We passed this giant castle on the way in as well.  The people at the headquarters told us the guy who invented scoopable kitty liter owns it, and it is 1/4 of the size of the castles it was modeled after in England.

I joked how strange, yet completely awesome it was to be packing to go camping while listening to Christmas music.