Howe's Cavern, July 11, 2016 Part One by Hank

We were going to Howe Caverns but Dad messed up the laundry. So we had to wait an extra hour for the laundry to dry before we did the four hour drive to Howe Caverns. Finally, we got there and we got tickets for the Howe Caverns. Then we went into the sweet shop and got fudge but we ordered a different type of fudge than they gave us because we got maple walnut and that wasn't what we ordered. We got maple walnut and chocolate fudge. We got in line to go to Howe Caverns and we walked in. There was a fake statue of Howe that had a speaker. He told us a story about Howe Caverns and how it was discovered. The statue of Howe looked really creepy because its eye holes weren't aligned and its eyelashes were too long and its mouth didn't move when the speaker talked but hung open instead. It really looked like a dead body. He talked about how one of his cows named Millicent who was grazing on his friend's land found Howe Caverns because the cow stood there every day and put its face into the hole because it was really cool down there on a hot summer day so it cooled Millicent off. Howe bought the land for Millicent by giving her a big kiss and some extra feed. His friend let him have the land including the caves for $100. He did tours there. They usually took eight or nine hours. Ours only took one hour.

After that, we went to the cave through an elevator and a few sets of stairs and then we were in Howe Caverns. The first thing I saw was a bunch of stalactites. We also saw the Chinese Pagoda, which was a giant stalagmite with holes in it that looked like windows. Then we walked over to the petting zoo which was actually two stalagmites - the only two in the caverns that you were allowed to touch. One of them looked like a howling wolf and one of them looked like the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Then we walked over to a flowstone that looked like a turtle. It grew so large that there was a small stream running around it but it grew so big that it cut that off and so now it doesn't grow anymore. Then there was a rock that was shaped like a witch with another witch under it. And if you looked from farther away you could see another witch in front of that witch. Then we got our picture taken near an oddly shaped stalagmite.