Cabin fever

This weekend the Pierce family headed out to Luray, VA, to reacquaint ourselves with Nature.

First stop: giant jumping pillow. Kids (and adults) would jump on this thing all hours of the day. Crazily popular.

The inside of our cabin. What, you don't think I'm crazy enough to attempt sleeping in a tent with Amalia, do you?

Not sure why Andy felt the need to capture me brushing my teeth. We told Lily we were staying in a log cabin just like Abraham Lincoln was born in.

Lily loved sleeping in the top bunk. In fact, when we got back home today she asked me how many days until our cruise (in February). I thought she was excited about seeing Guster. No, she remembered that the ship rooms have bunk beds.

On Saturday, we visited the world-famous Luray Caverns.

The live tour guides that were there the last time I went with Andy (about 10 years ago) have been replaced with audio devices. Now they just have high schoolers posted at various points around the caverns to make sure we don't do something nefarious.

The girls holding hands; the slopes are quite slippery.

This is me glaring at Andy, wondering why the heck he's taking a picture as Amalia decides she's done halfway through the tour. On a brighter note, her favorite part was The Great Stalacpipe Organ, which really is pretty cool.

Of course the tour dumps you out into a giant gift shop. Amalia spent a long, long time at this rock table, filling, emptying, and refilling her bag with rocks.

Still there. I think this is me telling her, "Two minutes."

Back at the cabin, Lily sat down to do her homework and get in some coloring time.

Have you ever seen a more pulchritudinous sun?

And here's what Amalia was doing during this time.

See Lily there in the background? As one of my mother's co-workers says, they're as different as chalk and cheese.

Preparing for the great s'more-a-thon.

Lily and Amalia had theirs sans Hershey bars.

After leaving the campground today, we stopped by the not-so-world-famous Luray Zoo. They are a rescue zoo and they had A LOT of snakes.

Amalemur.

Wallalily.

Here are a few videos from the weekend:



The campground had a Yogi Bear mascot that made a few appearances throughout the weekend. Amalia desperately wanted to go say hi, but swiftly changed her mind when we got close.



Have you ever seen those videos of cats chasing a laser pointer? Apparently Lily decided to try it out with Amalia. To great success.



And then Amalia wanted a turn.