While the rest of the family headed off to Rapid City, Kristern, her brother, and I headed off towards
Wind Cave National Park to do a little bit of spelunking. It was both of their first real experiences inside of a cave, so I figured this little side trip would be a great initiation to test if Kristen would eventually like doing more stuff in the
TAG area this winter.
I took a decent picture of a fallout shelter sign in Lead that hinted in the state's cold war vunerability when it was spotted with nuclear missile silos and would have been amound the first targets in a new world war. We continued through to Wind Cave after making a few wildlife viewing stops. The tour itself was a lot of fun as it involved a good bit of crawling around, though nothing was really too tight to make it uncomortable for most of the group.
The cave had a fairly rich history and quite a few fairly unique formations. Unfortunately it is hard to deal with cave photography due to lack of light the camers can use to guage focus and exposure couple with a tendency to whitewash the subject. We only covered about a half mile in the 3 hours or so we were underground, though with almost everyone in the group having never been in a cave aside from the guide and myself, it wasn't too bad. After finishing the cave we headed back into Rapid City for dinner and then decided to catch the new movie 'Wall-E' which was entertaining. the Pixar short animation 'Presto' that showed prior to the feature's start was the best part of the entire evening. While the movie was alright, I felt they spent too much time on the fat people (which just seemed like an excuse to throw in a few know voice actors). We headed back to the hotel after another long, enjoyable day.
While the rest of the family headed off to Rapid City, Kristern, her brother, and I headed off towards Wind Cave National Park to do a little bit of spelunking. It was both of their first real experiences inside of a cave, so I figured this little side trip would be a great initiation to test if Kristen would eventually like doing more stuff in the TAG area this winter. 
I took a decent picture of a fallout shelter sign in Lead that hinted in the state's cold war vunerability when it was spotted with nuclear missile silos and would have been amound the first targets in a new world war. We continued through to Wind Cave after making a few wildlife viewing stops. The tour itself was a lot of fun as it involved a good bit of crawling around, though nothing was really too tight to make it uncomortable for most of the group.
The cave had a fairly rich history and quite a few fairly unique formations. Unfortunately it is hard to deal with cave photography due to lack of light the camers can use to guage focus and exposure couple with a tendency to whitewash the subject. We only covered about a half mile in the 3 hours or so we were underground, though with almost everyone in the group having never been in a cave aside from the guide and myself, it wasn't too bad. After finishing the cave we headed back into Rapid City for dinner and then decided to catch the new movie 'Wall-E' which was entertaining. the Pixar short animation 'Presto' that showed prior to the feature's start was the best part of the entire evening. While the movie was alright, I felt they spent too much time on the fat people (which just seemed like an excuse to throw in a few know voice actors). We headed back to the hotel after another long, enjoyable day.
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