Moving day came so fast, and within 8 hours everything we own was boxed up and accounted for. The next day the movers came back to load the semi truck to put into storage for three weeks until we closed on our new house in Ohio. Wait a sec... semi truck did I say? Yes, semi truck, but I was happy to find out that our entire 2100 sq. ft. house of belongings only filled 1/4 of the truck, phew! I was starting to think maybe I should have purged a few more items :) Or maybe the movers are just really good packers.
Regardless within a day, our house went from feeling like our home to feeling like an empty lifeless house. We all cried (well, the girls and I cried) as we said goodbye to Fort Wayne but we looked forward to our new life in Ohio.
After our things left for storage, we packed up the car and drove to Ohio. On our way, Cam thought it would be fun to take a small detour and tour some of Ohio's caverns along the way which are 103 feet below the ground!
They have some of the longest and largest natural crystals in the nation in some pretty cool shapes. Can you see the water pump crystal in the second picture? The crystals are formed from dripping water, pretty amazing.
They call this one the carrot crystal...
It takes 500-1,000 years for one cubic inch of the crystal to grow, so this cavern has been here quite a while. The oldest crystal in the cavern, is about 250,000 years old. The cave is a constant 54 degrees all year round and without the lights on, it is so dark that you can't see your hand in front of your face. These taverns were found by accident by a couple of miners in the area in the mid 1960s. They decided to open it up to the public for tours in the 1970s and during each tour, they would let people touch some the crystals which they found out years later that it contaminated the crystals and made the beautiful white crystals turn brown and ugly. So now they only have one small crystal that you can touch to see what it feels like.
After the tour, the kids were able to mine small crystals themselves by sifting through a bag of sand to discover the crystals in the sand. It was such a fun detour, well worth the trip.
Look what Syd found!
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