After overnighting in the luxury of the Marriott Hotel in Charleston, West Virginia, we decided our next adventure would be a bit more earthy. Armed again with plenty of travel information, we made a stop at the 'Lost World Caverns'. Eli had never been into a cave system before, so he was pretty excited to grab his torch and start exploring. 
The cavern was pretty impressive, with lots of dripping stalagtites and stalagmites. It was fairly easy to navigate too, with elevated boardwalks etc, although we did see one group of adventurers on a caving tour which had them jump off the boardwalk and venture into the dark depths (apparently on a 4 hour caving excursion - maybe we'll work up to that one day...).
There is one spot on the cave trail where you can look up to the surface - apparently this is how the cavern was found - the old farmer who used to own the property used to drop all of his garbage (including dead cows) down this hole and it wasn't until new owners arrived and lowered their kids down on a rope (not sure you could get away with that these days!) that the extent of the cavern was discovered.
Here is Eli, at the end of our successful underground adventure!
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