The tours are all guided, 90 minutes and 500 stairs. It is notoriously difficult to take good pictures underground. There are more on the Picasaweb site if you want to see my lame attempts.
There were a few iffy moments. Eli was very reticent to travel down a narrow, very steep, spiral staircase, but was willing to make the trek with me close behind him holding his non-railing hand. Unfortunately, Finn had a panicked moment just after that at the top of a very steep, narrow straight staircase. I was still behind Eli and there is no passing room on these stairs, but he made it through with some verbal encouragement. On the next set of steep straight stairs, I went right in front of Finn and Eli and that seemed to alleviate their discomfort. I hardly saw Larkin on the traveling bits of the tour because she stayed right on the park ranger's heels and he walked quickly and then waited for the rest of the group.
At each stop the tour guide would give part of his spiel and then ask if anyone had questions. I think the kids would have been a bit happier with shorter stops, but since there were 8 adults with us in our group we had to be flexible. At the final stop when he asked if there were any last questions, Finn spoke up: "Um... when I grow up can I be a park ranger like you?" You could tell our ranger was just a little bit choked up as he spoke a bit about the park rangering business.
On an entirely unrelated note, Miss Tina was demonstrating a move at one of Larkin's last ballet classes (Tina is taking the summer off). She asked if anyone knew what it was called when one leg was bent and the other was straight. Without hesitation, Larkin called out "asymmetrical!" Miss Tina's mouth hung agape for several seconds before she acknowledged that, while that was true, the term she was looking for was "lunge."
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