Over spring break, my husband was teaching and my son was taking a lifeguarding class every day, so we couldn't do much travel. But on Friday afternoon when my son's class finished, we took off for Cedar City which is about 3 hours away.
We had two goals: visit the new Cedar City Temple and go on some kind of adventure outdoors.
Friday night, my husband and teenagers visited the temple while I stayed with our youngest who is not yet old enough to go in (you have to be 12).
On our way out, we saw some pronghorns. Apparently they're shy but these ones didn't act that way. We thought maybe this was the male and he had three females with him.
We had two goals: visit the new Cedar City Temple and go on some kind of adventure outdoors.
Then really early Saturday morning, I left everyone asleep and went by myself for the 5:30 session. It's a beautiful temple and I enjoyed my time there.
After breakfast, we drove east about 45 minutes to Mammoth Cave. This is a lava tube cave and is definitely not mammoth. I didn't actually go in because my back was bothering me and I am not a fan of tight spaces. But everyone else did and they got somewhat muddy because at a few points you have to crawl through. There were very few people when we were there. No one was there when we first arrived and a couple of cars came a little while later but not for the caves. It was a fun adventure and worth the drive.
There are five entrances to the cave and two of them are larger and the other three are pretty small. There are bats who hibernate in the cave so part of it is blocked off during the winter months so they aren't disturbed.
On our way out, we saw some pronghorns. Apparently they're shy but these ones didn't act that way. We thought maybe this was the male and he had three females with him.
We also saw so much lava rock. This area has obviously seen a lot of volcanic activity in the distant past.
Sounds like mammoth Cave was actually formed just 2,000 years ago, so super recent geologically. I think we have some other references to big changes that happened geologically about 2,000 years ago in the Book of Mormon, so this could have been part of that.
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