Stories from the Kangazoo: Happy New Year: Recap Part 1

Welcome 2015! The last bits of December 2014 were incredibly busy and we had a lot going on, so here's a little bit of a re-cap:

Mid December: We traveled to spend an "early christmas"with the Grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles.

As luck would have it, my sister and her family were traveling through the same city at the time we were visiting and we met up with them at a local Chick-Fil-A. Ryan and Dylan enjoyed playing with Noah and Jesse for a few hours while the adults played catch up.

Ruby Falls: As part of the kids Christmas, we wanted to give them one more experience gift. We had planned on Mammoth Cave, but it was sold out of tickets the night before, so thankfully Aunt Linda discovered Ruby Falls Caverns instead. All the cousins, Uncle Ken, Aunt Cassie, Unle Rod and Aunt Linda caravaned to Ruby Falls for a fun adventure. We hiked a few hundred feet to an underground waterfall. The kids were blown away by not only the waterfall but the stalactites and stalagtites and other rock formations.

After that hike, we were able to go on the Christmas Cave tunnel. The kids hiked down a decorated tunnel to see Santa Claus.

There was a little elf village. The kids were given a leather pouch with three gingerbread men tokens to exchange for activities on the trail.

Here they are with Santa. They sat on his lap and told him what they wanted for Christmas. Santa gave them each a glowing ball "wish" to put in his wish machine.

Here Dylan is putting his wish in the machine.

Here Ryan is exchanging his first gingerbread man for a crystal. He put the crystal in the joy-o-meter to see how much Christmas spirit he had. He got an A plus and got to keep the crystal.

For the second gingerbread man, they searched for the red joystone, also which they got to keep. The third gingerbread man was exchanged for breaking and keeping a geode.