The Viehwegs: Carlsbad Caverns

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Carlsbad Caverns

Today we went to Carlsbad Caverns. It's fairly close to Roswell and honestly probably the only thing worth seeing in this corner of the state.

Here's Keegan outside the visitors center. He refused to look at the camera because it was too bright outside and we had just spend 4 hours underground.

Jr. Ranger Keegan. I should have made him take his hat off because now it looks like he is wearing 2.

***Warning, the following blog post contains way too many pictures. You are free to scroll past them without fear of hurting my feelings.***

Here is the Natural Entrance to the cave. We chose to walk down the approx 750 feet to the rest area where our Ranger guided tour would begin.

It was really dark and there were a ton of Cave Swallows flying all over.

This is a ways in, they call it The Witches Finger.

Josh and Keegan, he insisted on wearing both hats.

Cave stuff

Almost touching, just another thousand years and maybe.

The Lions Tail.

Not sure about this one, it was really tall though.

The boys again. Keegan really did walk most of the way.

Tons and Tons of things just waiting to fall and stab into you.

Looking straight up into the stalactites.

The boys again. I swear he walked.

Hole in the wall.

close up of one of the really tall stalagmites

This one is sideways, sorry. Turn your head and see some of the "Drapery" formations

One really squigley drapery

More drapes

Only 3 more pictures below this I swear.

Again, so close but not quite.

Info about the lovely elevators that took us back to the top so that we didn't have to hike the 75 stories back to the top.

We really had a lot of fun at Carlsbad Caverns. I have wanted to go there for a really long time but it's just not really near anything. It was really one of the neatest places I've ever been to.

2 comments:

Jacey said...: Looks cool- and I'm sure it was a better experience without a sick Keegan, and getting kicked out!; July 22, 2010 at 2:06 PM
The Viehweg's said...: Ha ha, luckily we didn't get kicked out this time. However, Keegan still only thinks a cave is cool for a little bit. After the 1st mile he was ready to be done....we still had 2 more to go. Luckily there is an elevator so we could go back up and let him see the sun for a few minutes before heading back down for our tour.; July 22, 2010 at 4:32 PM

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*Keegan* Funnies

"Mom, do you know how I see things? There are little guys in my head taking pictures of what I'm looking at and then they send them to my brain"

Early this morning Keegan came running out of his room with a shoe in his had and yelled "MOM there's a bug in my pants!!" I asked "there's a bug in your pants?" He responded, "not these pants, the ones on my floor, I saw it, and thought it was a running arrow, but it's a bug"

Uncle Jon works at the Costco that George Bush was doing a book signing at. Keegan was talking to Jon on the phone and I told Keegan to ask Jon if he saw President Bush. Keegan quickly ask "Jon, did you see a president in a bush?"

He's been saying this for a while now but it still makes me laugh. If you say to him "You don't say" he ALWAYS responds with "OH, I'll say alright!"

Today Keegan told me "Watch out mommy, I'm coming in hot" he then jumped from the coffee table to the couch. When I asked him if he even knew what that meant and he told me "it means I'm going really fast and it will be hard to stop"

When I was unsure of the pool temp he didn't hesitate and jumped in. When he saw that I was still standing on the side he said "jump in mommy, it's refreshing"

Keegan and his best bud had a bit of a disagreement and Keegs ended up with a 1 inch gash in his head. (He's fine) But when I asked him if he was mad at Evan he replied "No, but he sure was mad at me!"

Not a "funny" but just a note, while we were in Mexico Keegan learned to say his "K" and "C's". So he no longer calls himself "Teenan" and Koda is no longer "Toda" It was such a shock to hear him ask us how was "MexiCO" not "MexiTo"

I have resorted to washing Keegans mouth out with a tiny bit of soap when he argues. Afterwards I was talking to him explaining that arguing isn't good and that the soap tastes yucky right?? He looked at me and said "Well, it doesn't taste GOOD"!!

The other day Keegan fell out of my mom's really tall truck. When he was asked if he got hurt on the truck he said, "No, it was the ground that hurt me"!

**Warning, not really funny, but still so funny at the time, maybe shocking is the right word**

Keegan dropped the "F" bomb today, totally random and so unlike him that I didn't believe he actually said what I thought he did. I actually made him say it again to see if heard him right. So despite me and Josh laughing we had to tell him it wasn't funny and that if he ever said it again he would go to time out for a long long time.

He got a watch for Christmas, if you ask him what time it is he often says "here, you look at it" It is a digital watch and will read the #'s individually if there is a 3 anywhere in the time he thinks they are E's So the other day it was 4 "E"7

Josh was helping him put on the ONLY pair of pants that actually fit and don't fall down. Keegan doesn't unsnap the snap and was struggling to get them over his keester so he said "my butt is too big" If you have actually seen Keegan you know that is NOT the case.

He often asks me how fast different animals can run, he usually wants me to tell him if it is faster or slower than Koda.

I told Keegan his drawers were falling down, he turned to me and said "What???? my drawers???" he then immediately ran upstairs and pushed in his dresser drawers.

Keegan asked if Grandpa Dan was up in heaven? I told him yes. He asked if he was up in the stars and clouds? I said yes. He then asked, when he is done in his rocket can he come back down?

Keegan got to meet Elmo at Sea World, he ran up and gave him a huge hug. Afterward he told me that "I gave Elmo a hug and didn't even poke him in the eye"

When his finger nails get to long he tells me he has "girl nails"

While on vacation, he asked if we were going to the beach that day, I told him "No we are going to Sea World today" he started to cry and then told me he didn't wan't to go to Sea World that he wanted to go to Wal-Mart.

While out one day a little girl called to her mommy and Keegan turned to me and said "Mommy she said your name"

I had asked Keegan for another kiss this morning and he replied "Nope, only one kiss today."

"Mom, there is something in my flip-flop!!" I ask, what is it? Get it out. He replies "my foot"

"Pa" is going pee, but he doesn't need my step stool betause he is very tall."