Crystal Grottoes Caverns and Antietam

Today was a much cooler day--only 90.  We began the day at the Crystal Grottoes Caverns.  The owner was originally from Presque Isle, small world. The caves were 54 degrees and remain at that temp year round.  Some beautiful stalactites (hanging down) and stalagmites (growing up) formations.

We then went to Antietam National Battlefield.  It is the site of the "bloodiest one-day battle of the American Civil War".  The 3rd and 4th picture show the Sunken Road which is also called the Bloody Lane.  The casualties of war "were lying in rows like the ties of a railroad, in heaps like cordwood mingled with the splintered and shattered fence rails".  It is just so hard to imagine what that battle was like.  You follow a map along an 8.5 mile road stopping at various historical sites along the way.  The last pic shows just a couple of the monuments that are along the tour route.  Really made us wish we had paid more attention in school when we were taught about the Civil War.