Lost Sea

Went to the Lost Sea today, and it wasn't a disaster. Just let the kids know the rules of storytelling. Like, don't do it. And the rules of Loudly Exclaiming too. And I made sure they understood what a pertinent question was. This is a moonshine still. I didn't have to visit it today.
This is called the Devil's Hole. It's just a hole with a red light in it. But they say it's pretty scary when the maintanance man changes the bulb without warning. Supposedly a lady looked in there at the wrong time and thought she saw the devil, but it was some homely maintanance man who quit his job after the jolt to his self-esteem. I take these Tennessee cave stories with a grain of salt.



This is a thing whose name I can't remember, but in the Civil War soldiers would fill it with bat guano. After a process a liquid called "mother's liquor" would come out. They would take this substance outside and add a few more ingredients and boil it until it crystallized into gunpowder. We won't be doing this recipe at home. Well, unless Dad figures out how it's done. He'll definitely want to try it.

We also visited the glass blower's shop, and walked the nature trail. Josie got a necklace with a glass eagle pendant. Jake got a color changing pencil.