Lost River Cave

Justin had one of his rare weeks off last week. However it was only like five days because a seminar he needed to attend happen to fall on his days off and he also picked up a moonlighting shift. So between that and all the blasted rain, we didn't do much of anything.

We decided to attempt a visit to the great state of Kentucky and this place my friend told me about, The Lost River Cave. I planned everything oh so carefully, packing lunch and working around naps, only to find when we got there that the water level was too high and they weren't doing cave tours.

So we did something Justin and I only dreamed of as kids. We bought a bag of dirt and panned for rocks and fossils. It was loads of fun! I honestly think Justin was more excited than Izzy. When we got home they worked together to identify all their jewels.

Isabella's exploding imagination has her being a new favorite character every day. This day she was Dora. That is why she is wearing the back-pack.

My dude!

Even though, we couldn't go in the cave, we were able to hike down to the cave and look in. This area is beautiful.

We also hiked through the mud to see a few butterflies flying around a butterfly house.

Our other big accomplishment of the week? We got our family picture taken (Izzy is 7 months in the last one we had done.)

Izzy just saw this picture in an ad on the computer. This was our conversation:

Izzy: Mom, you want that car?

Me: Not really, why do you want to it?

Izzy: When I get bigger, bigger, bigger and I can drive.

Me: Really? Go tell your dad.

Yeah that's a little scary. Don't worry, this camaro comes in at just under $31,000. A really great choice for a teenager, don't you think?

Give Me A "C"

C - for camping, that is.

It's a little embarrassing to admit, but in the almost six years Just and I have been married, we have never been camping together. It's a little odd considering we both enjoy it so much. Well, enough is enough and we took advantage of the two days off Justin had over Labor day and headed out. We were joined by the Carter's (thanks guys for the good times).

We ended up at a little family camp ground in the general direction of Georgia so Amy and Bryce wouldn't have to drive as far when the headed home. We pretty much got rained out for dinner and couldn't light a fire. We ate at Zaxby's. We were able to start a nice fire and roast some marshmallows. Except for Wes scooting all over the tent, we slept pretty well. And then it rained some more. We packed up our tents pretty quickly and Bryce cooked us breakfast under the hood of his car. We ate lunch at McDonald's. I think Izzy might be a little surprised when we actually go camping to find it doens't generally involve eating out.

We especially enjoyed our little canoeing excursion and playing red-rover with our cousins.

Amy took more pictures on her camera. Maybe she will post them on her blog.

09/09/09

Nine is the atomic number of fluorine.

It is 3 times 3 and hence the third square number.

Nine is a composite number, its proper divisors being 1 and 3.

Nine is the highest single-digit number in the decimal system.

A polygon with nine sides is called a nonagon or enneagon.

A group of nine of anything is called an ennead.

In base 10 a number is evenly divisible by nine if and only if its digital root is 9. That is, if you multiply nine by any natural number, and repeatedly add the digits of the answer until it is just one digit, you will end up with nine:

2 × 9 = 18 (1 + 8 = 9)
9 × 9 = 81 (8 + 1 = 9)
121 × 9 = 1089 (1 + 0 + 8 + 9 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9)
578329 × 9 = 5204961 (5 + 2 + 0 + 4 + 9 + 6 + 1 = 27 (2 + 7 = 9))

Important Buddhist rituals usually involve nine monks.

Ramadan, the month of fasting and prayer, is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar.

The car number of the 1988 NASCAR Nextel Cup championship-winning team, when Bill Elliott won the title. He used this number again from 2001 to 2003. Kasey Kahne has driven the 9 car since 2004. (that's for you Becca)

The number of innings in a regulation, non-tied game of baseball.

The San Francisco 49ers are sometimes referred to as the "niners".

Nine Lives Cat Food got its name from the legend that a cat has nine lives.

In classical music the curse of the ninth refers to the superstition that a composer who writes a ninth symphony will die soon. Beethoven, who left his Tenth Symphony unfinished, is regarded by the superstition as the first victim of the curse. Among nineteenth-century Viennese composers, neither Franz Schubert nor Anton Bruckner finished nine symphonies. Gustav Mahler attempted to avoid the curse by naming the work after his Eighth symphony Das Lied von der Erde He then wrote a complete Ninth Symphony, yet his Tenth was unfinished at his death.

In music theory a ninth is the ninth note of a musical scale or the interval between the first note and the ninth.

Bands with the number nine in their name include Sound Tribe Sector 9, Nine, Stroke 9, Nine Days, Nine Inch Nails, Nine Black Alps and Alice Nine.

The Beatles released a song called "Revolution 9" which appears on The White Album (more properly known as The Beatles); its principal vocal feature is a voice repeating, "Number nine...number nine...number nine..." John Lennon, the primary composer of "Revolution 9", also released a solo recording entitled "#9 Dream. Also, George Harrison released a solo recording and a song both called "Cloud Nine"".

"Love Potion No. 9 originally performed by The Clovers in 1955. Love Potion No. 9 was a 1992 movie starring Sandra Bullock and Tate Donovan.

In the American western folk ballad Oh My Darling, Clementine, Clementine's 'shoes were number nine.'

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (sometimes abbreviated DS9), is a science fiction television series rooted in Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek universe.

Nine justices sit on the United States Supreme Court.

The word "K-9" pronounces the same as canine and is used in many U.S. police departments to denote the police dog unit.

Someone dressed "to the nines" is dressed up as much as they can be.

Ninth Avenue is a major avenue in Manhattan.

In Middle Earth, there are nine rings of power given to men, and consequently, nine ringwraiths.

The nine muses in Greek mythology are Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (erotic poetry), Euterpe (lyric poetry), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (song), Terpsichore (dance), Thalia (comedy), and Urania (astronomy).



Anything else you want to add about the number nine?