Flashback to Ruby Falls

While on vacation in Tennessee we went to Ruby falls. I know this post is late but life has been a bit crazy for us recently. I hope to get all caught up before football and soccer season starts.
Ruby Falls is an underground waterfall. You are led through the cave by a tour guide who is there to get you in and get you out. The more people they move in and out the more moola they make. It is another stroller-unfriendly place. The groups were too big to hear the guide explain the tour. You have to pull to the side to let another group who was leaving pass you. The passage ways were narrow and not made for groups coming and going at the same time. But that is what you get at a tourist trap.

The kids liked to feel the cold rocks. We don't have many pictures because it was too dark and our group was split up.Despite the annoyance of feeling like cattle it was a neat experience. The older kids really liked it. Sadie... well none of us liked her on this excursion. She didn't want to be held, she was tired and very vocal about her feelings of displeasure. But that is what we expect of her, after all she is almost two.This is the climax of the tour...

The underground waterfall.
Me and the kids in the cave after we saw the waterfall.

After the tour was over they had huge outdoor play ground and a place to eat. The playground included a place to pan for gold.Being the tourist that we were we HAD to purchase the staged photo. If you don't waste your money on silly souvenirs when on vacation you're not a REAL tourist, right?