As my leader and fellow girl scouter have already described, I'm going to be dictating my story about the recent caving trip to Raccoon Mountain. c: It all began by us all getting onto our creeper van ( her name's Wanda - the Wanderer - get it? ) we drove for a short two hours and arrived at the mountain.
I honestly didn't know what to expect, we were given little to no detail about the actual INSIDE of the cave. We were all super excited, given it was a little weird to be the only girls other than little kids and moms. We held our own though, I swear we got a few weird judgemental looks.... BUT its totally okay, we handled the cave awesome, take that boy scouts :P
So after we parked and claimed a little space, we sent Britt and Coumbah to go check us in. While we waited we met our guide, his name was Chris (Chief Chris we later called him). We talked for a bit, he got the feel for our group (loud, exciting, but maybe more obnoxious c;). We waited for awhile and then head out to put on our gear. He all had a pair of knee pads and a hard hat helmet with head lights c: Let me tell you, you needed them. Throughout the entire trip I probably bumped my head against the rock 20 times.
When we got into the cave it was beautiful. I had never seen anything like it, there were stalagmites and stalactites all over, it was gorgeous. The trek lasted about 4 hours and during the time he had to crawl, slide, climb and contort ourselves. It was exhilarating and i felt pretty skinny that I could fit, so there's a plus c;
Anyway, it was incredibly fun and i wished i could've done it all night!
Coumbah and I had also made it our personal goal to get as muddy as possible, we were competing for muddiest against two twins who had previously come before. I think we came pretty close, from head to toe, I kid you not all you could see other than mud was our eyes and hair.
Clean up was ... difficult. I took especially long because I was one of the muddiest. Finally after spending an incredibly long time washing mud from every nook and cranny that my clothes didn't cover we went to go to sleep. As part of the excursion, we had decided to sleep in the cave. We all scouted out our spots to sleep and laid out sleeping gear out and called it a night.
In the morning, I was the first to wake up and my face was flawless. Chris told us before that the mud in the cave was the kind they used for spas and stuff... well it worked. It worked amazing. Because not only was I looking hot spankin awesome I was feeling great too. Totally energized, despite spending only about 5 hours sleeping, I felt like I could run 5 miles. After everyone had arisen, we all went to there breakfast, said our goodbyes and left; all with promises to come back next year. :)
Lizzy
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| Where I slept c: |
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| Im the REALLY muddy asian in the middle!! Told you we got muddy. |
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| My shoes got REALLY muddy |
