Went caving yesterday in the Guadalupe Room. This is the second biggest room in the cave, but it's off limits to all except NPS personnel and limited to five people per trip. This is the third time I have been in the room, and now I've been signed off to lead the trip. At the moment, there is only one other Interpretive Ranger who can lead trips into the Guadalupe room.
It's quite a beautiful place, but extremely physical to get there. I have the bruises and sore muscles to prove it! :-) We went off trail on Saturday morning about 8:30AM, caved our way to the Guadalupe Room, the Soda Straw Room and into the tiny Canary Room. We had a great group of rangers. We got back out about 12:30PM.
Saturday night we went to Ocotillo Performing Art Center in Artesia, NM (about an hour north of Carlsbad). We went to see "Take Me Home" by Jim Curry, who does a Tribute to the music of John Denver. Wasn't sure what to expect, but was quite impressed. He does look a lot like JD did back in the 80's, and his voice is similar. He doesn't imitate him, but sings the song with passion and truly enjoys his music. The hall was very small, but had good acoustics.
We both enjoyed the concert. The photos that were flashed on the screen behind him (just like JD often did) were beautiful. We noticed a couple of photos of Glacier - one of St. Mary Lake, which was the boat tour I did all summer. Another was of Logan Pass, yet again another place I spent a lot of time this past summer. Lots of great memories.
Long day, but quite enjoyable. Glad we had the extra hour of sleep last night.
Hope you all remembered to turn the clocks back this morning.
Love to all,
VAL & JOHN & The kitties.
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