The Little Trailer Project: From the Sky Down to the Earth

by: Kinsey

We left Giant City's big sandstone streets along with Pushko behind.

When we arrived at the campground, finding a spot was a bit hard, we went around the site three times and then finally decided. Our site had fire wood. We looked around and checked out the general store. Soon we had dinner, pork loin and potatoes. after that we used the rest of our marshmallows. We brushed our teeth and went to bed. Mom woke us up at midnight to see the meteor shower. We walked out out to the grass fields and before we got there we saw a guy who was watching the shower as well. We walked further and then started to go in the grass. It was wet. Dad spotted a platform walkway to put the blanket on. We saw a group of deer. It was cold. We saw bright, we saw dim, we saw thick, we saw thin. There were long, there were short, it made me feel like I watching air planes go by at an airport.

We didn't have any pictures from that night but I found this one online.

Cave time!

We checked in at the Visitors Center for our cave tour. The bus got there with a thump.We jumped on. It drove us to the entrance of the cave. Our guide started to talk about how The cave is the longest cave ever, it's over 400 miles long and they keep finding more every year.

he said that you need to turn your flash off if you have it on. We started down the long narrow stair case, our guide said the stairs were built by people that make stairs for submarines. You had to duck and dodge all the rocks sticking out of the walls. When we got to the bottom we all sat on wooden benches while our guide, Rick, talked about the man who first owned and explored the cave. We walked a bit more until we came to another room with benches. Rick talked about a little girl a long time ago who saw the stalactites and thought it was a little Fairy Castle upside down with a fairies going into it and a fairy road. So they named that spot the Fairy Ceiling. He also said that Godzilla was there and he got his toes stuck in the wall. He showed them to us but I wasn't very impressed they just looked like three triangles of rock. My favorite part of the tour was when we got to see the Frozen Niagara Falls. I was amazed how it had been formed by dripping water over millions of years. I wondered if there are any real water falls in there. When we left we had to walk across the mats of cleanliness just like we did at Mystery Cave in Minnesota. The bats here at Mammoth have the white nose disease so they are trying to keep it from spreading.