Marble Arch Caves - July 24, 2009

Today, we drove over to Alan's house. Detta and I had arranged to have lunch with Susan but we rebooked it for Saturday so Alan could take us to the Marble Arch Caves just east of Enniskillen. Fortunately Patricia was picking up Valerie's girls so we followed her.
We left about 9:00. It is about a 2 hour drive there but at least the scenery was enjoyable. We arrived about 12:00 (we stopped for a snack). We had to walk down 150 steps to get into the caves. I was worried that it maybe somewhat claustophobic, but it wasn't too bad at all. There were paths laid down to walk on. Though some of the taller people had to watch there heads. Some of the formations or stalactites grow about 1 cm every 1,000 years. In one part you can take boats but due to amount of rainfall the day before the water levels were too high. It really was quite amazing. It was nice and cool in the caves.
After this we headed back to Alan's. Alan made us a chicken curry for dinner. Detta loved it. It was nice to sit down and chat with Alan and his wife, Valerie. Detta copied a bunch of songs from Alan's PC to CD, she was very happy. We listened to it all the way back to Patricia's house.

Then I discovered my mistake about the day we were flying home as you have already read. This also meant Detta and I missed having lunch with my cousin, Susan. At least we dropped by the previous Saturday.