Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Trip Day 13-Shenandoah National Park and Luray Caverns

 Nathan turned 16 today!!!! We took him to a park and some caves for his birthday. It wasn't a very usual kind of birthday for him and a strange way to have a 16th birthday, but we're here on our trip. 


We spent our day driving through Shenandoah National Park. It was very beautiful! The views were amazing and it was very quite. The weather wasn't too hot and it was very relaxing. I am posting a lot of photos of the pretty views. 















Halfway through our trip, we took a detour out of the National Park and went to the Luray Caverns!! They were out of this world!!! So interesting. I had no idea something like this existed here.  We walked about a mile through the caves seeing all kinds of interesting formations. It was nice and cool inside too. 



Elizabeth is in front of Mirror Lake. The bottom part is a reflection of the top! 


It's hard to describe how big these caverns were. The pictures don't quite capture it. 













There were an overlook called "Jeremy's Run" overlook. Jeremy ran away from it...



and ended up here!! 






We exited out the north entrance and headed to our hotel. 

We were very close to Washington D.C that night as we were flying out of Dulles the next day. 





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