Indian Echo Caverns

Planning outtings has always proven to be a challenge for us over the years. Sam and I tend to wait until the last minute to decide if we are going to make an adventure out of a day, and what we found was the lack of anticipation. Anticipation is one of life's greatest gifts to a child and Drew and Liv deserve to have something to look forward to.

In an effort to join the masses of 'planners' who surround us - I sat down with a calendar, looked up a few cool day trips and put them in the Outlook Calendar. I included my dear husband as an 'invitee' and wasn't sure how it would go over until I started recieiving his "accepted" responses and a note: "Keep 'em comin'!!"

Indian Echo Caverns was our first day trip. It gave us all something to look forward to and it gave us a new look at this beautiful Mid-State.

The Caves are separated into 'rooms'. The photo on the left is of the focal point of the largest of the rooms, The Ballroom. Many weddings have taken place in this room and the stilagmite you see is called 'the guardian' of The Ballroom and is the result of 3 millions years of dripping water from the cave's ceiling. With the water comes a minerial deposit called Flowstone. The micro particiles of the Flowstone slowly pile over time to create an emense vertical rock formation like this one.

This room, to the right, is called The Wedding Room. Beneath the wooden bridge, where Sam is standing, there is an untouched body of water - crystal clear. In the 1930's, the tours of Indian Echo Caverns allowed it's patrons to drop a coin in the water and make a wish. The story is that of a little girl, who's wish was to marry in this magestical room of glittering stone formations, with diamond water at her feet.
Nearly 20 years later, it was a wish that came true. She vowed her life to the man of her dreams in that very room - the groom, a little boy who stood at her side when she made the wish 20 years ago. It was this story, coupled with the dramatic layering of gleaming flowstone that inspired the name: The Wedding Room.

These are just a few of the many pictures we took this day. It was a wonderful time for us all. Drew and Liv enjoyed the tour and before long, the guide asked Drew if he would like to take the flashlight and finish the tour for himself. As an active participant in the tour, the guide took a shining to Drew and he to the guide. Liv skipped along the walkways, taking in all the information and the stories of each room. For her, it was a magical land of far away - created too long ago for her young mind to understand its legacy, but too beautiful to be ignored. Sam and I found the tour to be wonderous and enjoyable, but not nearly as magical as watching our children embrace the experience, learn from it and grow into themselves.

Welcome

There are many reasons why blogging is a good thing for the Boore family...

1.) we have many friends and family strewn about, living their lives just as busily as we are and there is little time to email everyone individually and let them know how things are going.

2.) Our lives have us going from one thing to another... namely: I should be working right now. The business I started, SPRAMA.design, is currently under the direct care of my very capable business partners: Ashly and Josephine. While I juggle the business/family thing, they are keeping things rocking over at the design studio. Without them, I would be a total mess - and creating a blog would be at the bottom of my To Do List. Because of them, however, I can support my husband's demanding career and insure Drew and Liv get a relatively eventful summer under their very deserving belts.

3.) I hate telephone calls. I have a lot of friends and family that love long, lesiurely phone calls and I couldn't despise them more. Although I enjoy the occasional stimulating telephone conversation, I typically just fall short of 'enjoyment' and fall right into the cavernous valley of distraction. I rarely walk away from a phone conversation remembering everything I should. Even my husband emails me when he needs me to remember something.

4.) I love to write. Writing offers me the opportunity to slow down, think about all the things I experienced, and actually try to exercise my vocabulary into describing each event, as though it were my last mission to describe something for the masses. I love the expression in the written word and I love to read back after a few weeks and see where my mind went.

In closing... There is more to today's post than this. We went to Indian Echo Caverns and I took a slew of pictures. Each day brings new adventure - stay tuned!