2015 Sellers Vacation: Day Four - Underground We Go!

Today's agenda brought about an experience that made Maria quite nervous. Going underground in a cavern. She has images of going into a tight fitting cave but thankfully this was not the case. The cavern was rather large and in fact, companies run businesses in rooms created by the mining blasts in the past.

The tour lasted an hour and twenty minutes. We were under the Watterson Expressway, Kmart and the Louisville Zoo during the tour. Of course we could not hear anything as we were 130 feet below the surface. Sounds scary, doesn't it? The offered so much information and took us to many areas. The recycling of inorganic material was the beginning of the tour as the roads built the roads for this cavern. Businesses brought in their leftover concrete, asphalt and building materials to build the steady floor of the cavern. At the end of the tour, we witnessed the Worm recycling room where organic material is recycled. Our tour guide even ate a worm. It was gross but apparently part of the job as a tour guide. Who knew that worms were super high in protein?

After leaving the Mega Cavern, we sat in the Kmart parking lot. Yes! The exact one we had just been 130 feet underneath. We had leftovers from Tuscany, so we ate our lunch in the parking lot discussing what we had just experienced. Fun and not scary at all, thankfully.

We then headed to our next hotel. This is our home for the next three nights. It was nap time and then supper time. We had the college favorite, macaroni and cheese with turkey dogs.

We then headed to the Ohio Falls State Park for a nice long walk. We were able to see the hydro power station for the locks on the river and as well as see how high the water is right now. It's high! Not nearly has high as the flood of 1997 but it is up there. The park offers a super nice walking/biking trail that follows alongside the river. There are picnic tables and grills along the way as well as a visitors center.